Visual Strolls
seasonal residency
Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.
Autumn 2021 Artist in Residence
Laura Savina
Laura is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Rome. Beside producing varied visual creations, Laura is also a member of the Robida collective, and loves cold water swimming.
Autumn Portrait 2021
“...Il bosco si avvicina,
allunga le mani nelle finestre, le apre per sempre.
Costruiamo nidi per ripararci dal freddo.
Al mattino raccogliamo rami e foglie,
li dipingiamo di rosa, di giallo, li appendiamo alle pareti
per gli uccelli che arriveranno...
Ogni volta che entro in un bosco penso: e se non ci fosse più altro? se il resto del mondo, costruito e sintetico, adesso che sono qui, stesse rapidamente sparendo?
torneremmo ad avere le piume, le pellicce?
Torneremmo iridescenti e morbidi?”
“...The forest approaches,
reaches into the windows, opens them forever.
We build nests to shelter from the cold.
In the morning, we gather branches and leaves,
we paint them pink, yellow, we hang them on the walls...
for the birds that will come...
Every time I go into the woods I think: what if there was nothing else? What if the rest of the world, constructed and synthetic, now that I am here, is rapidly disappearing?
Would we go back to having feathers, furs?
Would we go back to being iridescent and soft?”
About Visual Strolls
Visual Strolls is not only an online gallery, an exhibition room, a portrait into the work of the invited artist. It is also a part of our long-term research, understanding arts and creativity as forces that change human states of attention in manifold ways, as forms of cognition and perception, divergent perspectives and poetry of vision, access to intuition and imagination, and empowerment for conscious creation of culture. You can read more about Art into Life research here.
Cover image: Laura Savina