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.
Winter micro-seasons
In winter ‘Visual Strolls’ at Foresta becomes a space alive with diverse encounters. In the spirit of the entangled pluriversal visions, we invite artists to share seasonal moments they observe and experience across geographies. We are also inspired by the Japanese culture where the understanding of seasons stretches beyond the four times of the year with varying temperature and length of daylight: there are 72 micro-seasons, 72 kō, 72 poetic moments of the year closely observed as things change in the living world around. This winter at Foresta 5 artists from different parts of the globe are sharing their visions of the season.
Winter Portrait 2020/2021: New Beginning
By
Peng Wu
Peng is an illustrator and picture book creator, living in Beijing, China. In 2017 she published her first book《油画棒创想绘》about how to create illustrations with oil pastels, and continues to work on picture book projects.
“I love what nature gives me! I love the sun, the air, the sea and the thick forest. In Beijing, where I live, the four seasons are very distinct. From my window to the right is a thick forest. In spring, it’s full of tender green and hairy leaves, it looks very lovely. In summer, it becomes luxuriant, when the breeze blows, different green will swing to and from. In autumn, it turns yellow, orange, red, olive green and brown, shining in the sun. I love snowy winter, white and calm, powerful trunk looks solemn and moving. I’m looking forward to the chance to live in the forest for a while and explore its mystery and treasure with my brush.”
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 by Peng Wu