Artist in Residence

INES DIEDERICH

Artist Sculpture Design Born: Germany Lives in: Berlin E-mail: See links in BIO ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

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ARTIST STATEMENT ARTIST IN RESIDENCE OCT 2019 Working in the arts is like harvesting for me, a harvest of fruits that seem so unfamiliar to you, yet have such a familiar taste. In the search for viable ways of artistic work, the creative impulses always come from a sense of oneness and the bond with the creation and its natural beings. Working thus happens more intuitively and emotionally than intellectually.The symbolic translation of experience that follows my inner world is thus always guided by the example of nature, no matter what degree of abstraction the resulting work attains.

		Sculpture Title. Pax Minoica. In the early C20 the archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, proposed the Pax Minoica (Minoan Peace) to describe the evident lack of aggression among Minoan civilization on Crete in the Bronze Age between 3000 and 2700 BC.
		Twelve trees of Ash Leaf Maple which Ines cultivated in Germany and brought were planted on each side. If everything goes to plan they will establish a grove of trees that will form a roof to the natural sanctuary.
		Toward the visitor a snake meanders - a serpent - a symbol of the underworld deity with its chthonic aspects - the Goddess of Earth and associated with the renewal of life.
		The center of the land art garden is an olive tree shaped by the centuries, it is framed by two stone packs following the shape of the horns of the sacred Minoan bull, horns of consecration.
		Nowadays we are in permanent war against nature. My garden wants to set a sign to enter an age of peace and a good togetherness between all beings.
		Surrounding everything are cut brunches of olive tree prunings that form a nest to host and protect.
		Planting different flowering plants, herbs and wild olive trees complete the design.
		The old Minoans worshiped their goddesses under the open sky often in special trees mostly olive trees. Grooves of trees were sacred places for ceremonies.
		How unbelievably wonderful there has already been a donation of a bench for visitors that want to take time for contemplation.

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