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For years, out of various plants, I have been weaving nests for people. Most often, I hang them on trees. This project came into being out inspiration by the nest of penduline tit and the wicket sculptures of Krzysztof Wrona, as well as out of my fascination with weaving as such. The nests have various shapes. What they all share is the use of natural material, organic form and the dream to live on trees. I think of the nests as a place of play and a tool for building ecological awareness of children. I want to take the project up to the point when you can live in the nests through the warmer part of the year.
some nests filmed in the public space in Warsaw:
Remiz Nest, 2013
BATHYSCAPHE
Simple, cylindrical forms, when they are hung on trees, I call bathyscaphes. These capsules serve immersion in a two-fold sense: in the space, which from the bathyscaphe’s levitating interior appears like fantastic bottom of the sea, as well as in calmness, delving deep inside oneself.
SHOAL
The cylindrical bathyscaphe forms in greater number give the possibility of composing constellations in space. In September 2016 I hung five such forms (one lying on the ground) in the garden of the University Library in Warsaw. In some of them, there were hung texts of various cultures speaking about the world of nature – poems by Leśmian, Daria Kozłowska – Wrona, some Japanese haiku.
The nests turn into giant glowworms.
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