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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What is a land-art placement?
The global sculpture WEARTH doesn’t fit into a museum; it takes place in the landscape of this Earth. Mostly, nature beyond the human being is present; sometimes buildings are dominant. The brick interacts with the given landscape, making a poetic, spatial statement.
Why is such a placement important?
Our spatial behaviour on this Earth is the key question of our time. Good answers to that question will determine the quality of life in the future. We think that we need a lot of spatial consciousness and that such a global project will help to enhance.
And how does it work @ WEARTH?
Once the WEARTH wax bar is created with its seven sides (six sides on the outside, the seventh side the individual inside of the partial transparent brick), the location is chosen following a specific protocol. We superpose a grid of hexagons on each terrestrial territory. The hexagons have a side length of 48 km, thus can be subdivided into 6 triangles, each having three sides of 48 kilometers.
Per hexagon, 6 x 3 = 18 WEARTH wax bars can be placed, if each WWWs
is 48 km apart from the next one. In reality, the 48 kilometres are measured in the actual terrain, not on a map.
In the first part or episode of the placements in one territory, in each hexagon, 3 wax bars are to be placed in one of the 6 triangles.
3 wax bars are to be placed in one of the triangles, with
each of which must be 48 km apart.
A hexagon corner point can be occupied twice after 4 years.
Below you may see a sample of the German territory’s hexagons. Bright are the first round’s triangles.