Metals, coal, silicon, salts and similar crystalline raw materials have hitherto served us as means of development and progress. Today, silicon or silicon processor cores control almost all computer systems in the world. However, the general euphoria about the endless possibilities of sustainable development is fading. Concerns about exceeding the horizon of the sustainability of life are real. Increasingly, it turns out that exponentially growing powerful systems communicate more with each other than we who created them.
Axis Mundi / brownfield Kotelna a Uhelný mlýn / Libčice nad Vltavou
Dry young tree / GASK garden Kutná Hora
Looking at trees, we perceive their density and color of leaves, size, spacing, species, age, shadow of the crown and how they shape the memory of the place. However, it often happens that trees are planted where they live, cover part of the house, or in elevated places, regardless of the possibility of reaching groundwater. Some trees, mainly urban ones, in summer drought or in extreme conditions, require adequate space for growth and stability.
A memorial to the Czech victims of Soviet repression / Kazakhstan / Spassk
A memorial to the Czech victims of Soviet repression was created in Kazakhstan, and it was unveiled near the city of Karaganda by representatives of the Czech Embassy. It is located next to other monuments at the Spassk memorial site, where a labor camp and a prisoner of war camp stood in the 1940s. In Kazakhstan, mainly in the years 1937-1938, dozens of Czechoslovak citizens were executed and hundreds more went through local labor camps. The initiator of the creation of the memorial was Eliška Žigová, the Czech ambassador to Kazakhstan.
Restoration / Kladno / Chomutov / Ostrava / Liberec / Praha / Litomyšl
The temporary installation of a grouping of rusty silhouettes of dry trees is an eloquent symbol of the issue of increasing civilizational devastation of the landscape with the need to point out the current criticism of the long-term treatment of large areas of our landscape. The theme of reclamation is the artificial transformation of a place, which can often be an example of unprofessional or financially abused corporate behavior.
Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust from Proseč
The burning bush, which is not consumed by fire, is a symbol of the Jewish people. This is how the rabbi interprets the biblical text from the Second Book of Moses: "... he saw that the bush was burning with fire, and yet the bush was not consumed by the fire." (third chapter, second verse in the translation of Rabbi Ephraim Sidon).