NEST. BUILDING A HOME
We built our nest during Being Nature Art Continuum Nomadic Residency, January 2024, in Chiang Dao, Thailand.
Photography: Veronica Olariu
Making as being: Letizia Aufort, Linh Trịnh, Veronica Olariu
Performers: Letizia Aufort, YuJin Kim
Art Direction: Veronica Olariu
We built a nest. It is a real nest; just that it is oversized. Which makes us oversized birds…or at least something much closer to birds than we were before. Building a nest, building it like non-humans, and definitely like non-architects and non-designers. The birds’ knowledge channeled through our open hands and open minds and open bodies while simply making.
Making as being. Making as an open door towards more-than-human knowledge and wisdom. Being as making with our thinking hands and with our intuitive bodies.
Real-time trial and error with what we found on-site and around the site replaced any sketch, drawing, plan or resource management strategy, trademarks of the architecture and design practices.
The final result simply emerged from our dancing interaction with the mater. Deconstructing my architect brain through constructing a bird nest: no plan, no sketch, no esthetic intention, no stocked materials, no assistance from an experienced winged or non-winged nest-builder.
Just our hearts extended into our arms and hands.
There is so much knowledge to be revealed in the non-abstract field of direct making!
