Stories from a 'guilty' landscape
This is a journey in video diaries: Getting closer to the landscape surrounding my self-built cabin in the French Gaume. I will tell you the story of how I ended up there twenty years ago and show you why and how, this place makes so much sense to me.
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Working on maintenance of the cabin and property, using local materials, repairing dry stone walls and much more, I 'd like to share (with you) my desire and efforts to get closer to nature, to cultural history, to the identity of this spot and region, in the middle of what historians nowadays call a 'guilty' landscape (Maginot Line, WW I and II) located on the south western slope of a Vauban (17th century designer) citadel.
You can join me on this journey, picking mushrooms, berries, hiking, maintaining the cabin and connecting to local people with a special relationship to this landscape.
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Journey concept
Why: ‘to facilitate people in their own personal relationship with nature, cultural history and landscape by sharing my special story of how I washed up the western slope of the Citadelle de Montmedy twenty years ago and why and how this place means so much to me'
How: Production of video vlogs (20-40 min, eventually bi-weekly) on YouTube: SlowTV.
And by reading, observing, thinking, contemplating and experiencing, sharing, develop a multi-sensory framework (of mind) to help myself and others to connect to landscape and feel alive.
What: Fixed setup: images of nature/culture/heritage (camera/drone later on), cabin explanation and maintenance, visit sites in region, tell stories, read to viewers, interview locals, connect to landscape, hiking, and more…
Posts on Instagram
tasting
Yesterday’s find: a meal of delicious chantarelles. I left enough specimens to spore and continue their subterranean network. Just their vanille smell is enough inspiration to pasta…
looking out
Best view of the cabin, last June. It seems it is paying attention to the valley landscape. It is always 12 C cooler under the trees.
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Locatie
Closer to Landscape
Amsterdam, Netherlands / Gaume, France