We create a global sculpture and first anthology of human values
Wearth summer pilot workshop and placement
Belgium: We start in Essen, close the haven-city of Antwerp and the Dutch border, where we co-create the partial sculptures in a workshop with local people. During these workshops we make some portraits of these early co-creators. The first placements will be done with our results from this workshop, too. Holland: Crossing the border from Belgium, we continue our placements each 48 kilometer heading towards Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Groningen. Since we do not have this culturally and historically rich area on our main routes in W#1 – W#4, our interest of understanding the values of this region is big. In Belgium and Holland we are facing an anthropological approach towards the local people/co-creators. Belgian Anthropologist Mitte Scheldemann will guide, monitor and evaluate the process with us. With her help we define the standards for our scientific approach on our anthology of human values that will follow us around the globe. Germany: Crossing the border to Germany, still following the old routes of the Hansa, it presents itself and its inhabitants in a different glance with every placement we do. Via Hamburg we arrive at the Baltic Sea: Lübeck, Rostock, Greifswald and arriving at the Island of Usedom. Slavic sounding city names remind us of the rich cultural and political exchange in this region ever since. At this place we cross the border to Poland: Placing our sculptural mosaic of WEARTH encaustic wax bricks each 48km along the Baltic Sea coast, we reach the cultural heritage Gdansk. From here it is only a stone’s throw to the Russian exclave Kaliningrad, where we also place some stones with the locals. In Germany, Poland and Russia we are targeting at an artistic outcome of the literary portraits by working together with German, Polish and Russian speaking authors, who give written testimony of the values accounted for in their respective languages. This pilot gives us a better feeling and insight of the bigger picture- of OUR GLOBAL SCULPTURE WEARTH. Each placement opens our view for a different perspective, for individual ways of approaching life, for the vast variety of values on our planet. Both routes, Belgium – Holland – Germany and Germany – Poland –Kaliningrad will be followed by our camera team. All the outcome- the scientific essays, the literary portraits, the documentary movie and the photographs will be published to gain as much attention as possible. The attention is the base for all the support we need to make the global sculpture come true. Thanks for all co-creating with us; this trip is WEARTH it!
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We witnessed a couple of values when we made our first encounters in Vladivostok.
WEARTH met with ManSur, a native Feng-Shui artist, who creates labyrinths and other sculptures of great power. Check out his webpage at www.man-sur.ru . ManSur instantly got the idea of WEARTH and wanted to participate in it.
Vladivostok placement
Jens holding the Vladivostok brick before placing it
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Let me now turn to the small story I would like to share with you. Within the framework of our project WEARTH, the first global sculpture and anthology of human values, I undertook several journeys to Russia before the war in Ukraine. WEARTH is conceived as a co‑creative global sculpture made of individual encaustic wax bricks that are placed in landscapes around the planet, each brick bearing personal values and intentions. During fireside conversations hosted by the German ambassador in Moscow with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussion turned to Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in eastern Eurasia (as we know, the English establishment at the time refused to grant him a visa for India, where he also wished to travel, because of his outspoken opposition to slavery in the Americas and his advocacy for Indigenous peoples)…
Vladivostok placement
The placed encaustic bar
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Let me now turn to the small story I would like to share with you. Within the framework of our project WEARTH, the first global sculpture and anthology of human values, I undertook several journeys to Russia before the war in Ukraine. WEARTH is conceived as a co‑creative global sculpture made of individual encaustic wax bricks that are placed in landscapes around the planet, each brick bearing personal values and intentions. During fireside conversations hosted by the German ambassador in Moscow with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussion turned to Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in eastern Eurasia (as we know, the English establishment at the time refused to grant him a visa for India, where he also wished to travel, because of his outspoken opposition to slavery in the Americas and his advocacy for Indigenous peoples)…
Connecting with the local bricks
The dialog between the brick and the spiritus loci commences
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Let me now turn to the small story I would like to share with you. Within the framework of our project WEARTH, the first global sculpture and anthology of human values, I undertook several journeys to Russia before the war in Ukraine. WEARTH is conceived as a co‑creative global sculpture made of individual encaustic wax bricks that are placed in landscapes around the planet, each brick bearing personal values and intentions. During fireside conversations hosted by the German ambassador in Moscow with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussion turned to Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in eastern Eurasia (as we know, the English establishment at the time refused to grant him a visa for India, where he also wished to travel, because of his outspoken opposition to slavery in the Americas and his advocacy for Indigenous peoples)…
Walking out of ManSur's circles
Stepping out in the correct way in order to see it from the outside
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Let me now turn to the small story I would like to share with you. Within the framework of our project WEARTH, the first global sculpture and anthology of human values, I undertook several journeys to Russia before the war in Ukraine. WEARTH is conceived as a co‑creative global sculpture made of individual encaustic wax bricks that are placed in landscapes around the planet, each brick bearing personal values and intentions. During fireside conversations hosted by the German ambassador in Moscow with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, discussion turned to Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in eastern Eurasia (as we know, the English establishment at the time refused to grant him a visa for India, where he also wished to travel, because of his outspoken opposition to slavery in the Americas and his advocacy for Indigenous peoples)…
Jens circling spirals
The spiral-labyrinth had to be entered in a specific way
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See Co-Creation Details here…
Overlooking the bay of Vladivostok with the ancestors
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See Waxbar Details here…
Be that as it may, after I had placed our encaustic brick on his stones and left the spiral in order to photograph and film the constellation, something even stranger occurred: the brick gave a small leap into the air, perhaps five to eight centimetres. Mansur commented laconically that his ancestors had accepted the WEARTH project and approved of it.