Habima Fuchs in collaboration with Denisa Tomášková: I Hurry off To Drink Eternal Light 

The landscape intervention is based on a long-term observation of a meadow plot in the Orlické Mountains and is a continual collaborative process between artist Habima Fuchs, permaculture expert Denisa Tomášková and the community Woods. It combines aspects of landscape architecture, thinking about the importance of water and artistic work with space, which gives shape and philosophical overlap to the water element in the open landscape. The resulting water feature will serve to provide the necessary water retention in the meadow over the long term and create a microclimate in which various species will thrive. The proposed shape of the pond meets the functional requirements, but at the same time, together with the sculptural objects designed for sitting and thinking, it fits aesthetically into the landscape. The edges of the pond are planted with plants with specific symbolism so that the transition between the seasons is completed by the coloring of the shrubs and plants, and the colors of the leaves, flowers and berries blend and complement each other, as do their scents and various healing effects. The water element thus encompasses a moment of mutability, incompleteness and autonomy that defies the formula of the original artistic intention. 

The intervention also includes two sculptural objects created as part of the artistic commissions for the Woods. More-than-human curiosity project.

Habima Fuchs is a Czech visual artist whose work has long been revising the established mechanisms and traditional existential, philosophical, or metaphysical turns that we rely on to understand the world we live in. The symbols and motifs that she reflects and materializes in doing so come from different cultures and times, from the framework of Christian iconography and oriental religious contexts. The result is an exceptionally compelling imagery, seductive and subversive, but also deeply self-critical.

Denisa Tomášková is a permaculture designer and lecturer, a student of one of the founders of permaculture, Bill Mollison. She is the author and consultant of the designs of many natural and permaculture gardens and regenerative farms and co-founder of the Czech Academy of Permaculture.