The Sacred Grove

Scenarizing the wild forestrial dynamic

Behind this name, this garden stages the role and the benefits of fallen trees within forest ecosystems while advocating for greater relationships betweeen humans and nature.

Sacred groves are recurring elements through history, amongst westerns and non-western cultures. They are protected spaces where mankind converses with deities, primordial and elemental places where nature and humans connect.

This garden is an interpretation of this concept. It stages a fallen tree in the middle of a meadow, surrounded by a dense forest edge. It is a space of intense life where bacteria, insects and fungi are busy decomposing the wood, feeding ground and birds, where perennials, shrubs and saplings are stretching for the light, a space where the death of a tree starts the rebirth of many others. Cloistered by wooden poles, the central meadow become a sanctuary, a place where visitors are guests, invited to have a seat under the trees, contemplate and reconnect with nature.