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.
Summer 2019 Artist in Residence
Sandra Javera
Sandra is a Brazilian illustrator and artist who lives in Berlin. In her work she plays with lines, colours and ceramics, and makes experiments with different materials and media. Photo: Leandro Viana
Summer 2019 Portrait
“I chose to portrait a forest with a human in it. And as a layered organism, formed by organelles, cells, and structures that, similarly to the human organism, orchestrate to provide life. The relationship between science and poetry has always amazed me. The wisdom behind the photosynthesis process, the search for light and the explosion of life that happens from one seed are for me some of the most poetic and powerful images provided from the forest to us.”
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: Sandra Javera