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• The Grass and the Osier
• Playing with Light
• Winter Transformation
• A Shelter in the Woods
• The River Swing
• To Vessels
• A Willow Embraced
• The Forty-Five-Beanpole Triangle
• A Clear-Cut
• A Walk to the Orchards
• The Autumn Princess
• The Castle Well I
• The Castle Park
• The Stone Spiral
• The Golden Beech
• The Enwoven Willows
• The Castle Well II
• Willows in Bloom
• The Pyramid-Tree
• A Basket Full of Willow
• The Trnovo Lighthouse
• The Woven Bottle

Winter Transformation

A frozen pond / An ice cone

I had always been fascinated by the frozen plane. The ice inspired me not so much as material which lends itself be moulded, but with its transmutability, with melting and converting of its own matter. What guided me in this work was the thought of a geometrical body in a landscape and of converting clear-cut geometry into an amorphous state.

A stone chisel, a chisel, a club hammer, and a rope with a hook, was all I needed to cut ice discs out of the iced surface of the pond; from the largest disc to the top cone.

Next, I needed a sledge and some help from my brother and a friend. We transported the discs to the other side of the pond and piled them one on top of the other.

The cone withstood the January and February sun, then it levelled with the surface again.

Date of Implemetation:

December 2000

Place/Locus:

The castle pond at the Bruna Village near the town of Mokronog in the Dolenjska Region

Technique:

Cutting frozen surface and vertically stacking up the discs

Dimensions:

An upright cone of diameter 1.50 m and height 2.25 m

Number of Participants:

Up to 3.

Implementation Process:

The cone consists of eighteen discs of different diameters and the top cone. First, I cut out the discs, then we moved them to the other side of the pond and piled them into a cone shape.