GESTURES OF A GEOMANTIC GARDENER pt.2

Strl_ & Mo Langmuir

Schmucksmuseum Pforzheim, DE, 2024
 
Laser etched mirror, aluminium frame, watter-lettuce, pvc-coated mesh fence, limestone 

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Geomancy is concerned with perceiving the ethereal world, fostering a positive impact on our environment and heightening ones senses in search of harmony.

Through a process of fieldwork and subsequent letter correspondence, a series of interventions explores a potential of Geomancy to expand conventional architectural methodology in search of deeper connection to our living world - asking the question; What does a geomantic world look like?

Between the Hohenwart Forum and the Schmuckmuseums courtyard a portal is established. A twinning of two bodies of water based on geomantic principles.

Placed in the water, a floating garden represents a celestial mapping of Statdparken (the museums adjacent green space). Held at the heart of the garden is an aluminium frame identical to the one at the Hohenwart Forum. The Aluminium frame encases the second half of a mirror-etched poem composed from letter correspondence between the artists and Pforzheim Geomancy Group. A rock garden is created in order to reorientate visitors to the water’s edge of the courtyard pond, guiding one towards the portal and the poem.

 
As part of Ornamenta 2024 - special thanks to Katharina Wahl, Andrea Silvia Zauner, Reinhard Maier and Ina Soepboer. Photography by Gabriella Kuehnhardt-Alvarez & Karolina Sobel