landscape intervention ABANDONED MERCURY MINE

Interpretation

NARCISSUS the endless forest

While he is drinking he beholds himself reflected in the mirrored pool — and loves; loves an imagined body which contains no substance, for he deems the mirrored shade a thing of life to love. ...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses

8 CE

The visitors delve into the shadow of the pine trees surrounding the derelict miners’ houses.

The facing mirrors create a disturbingly artificial forest from only six trees. The endless forest offers endless self-reflections.

The wooden structure of the mirrors offers moments of rest on the outside.

As Narcissus wastes away and dies with the love for himself, the nymphs go to arrange a ceremonial rite. Yet upon returning to his lifeless form, they discover naught but a radiant flower in his stead.

The Daffodil (Narciso) is a fundamental part for Karaburun’s culture and narrative. During the end of winter these flowers cover the whole peninsula in white and yellow.

Interpretation

ECHO the mirrored tower

Echo is a nymph, who cannot speak but only repeates the last words of others as a result of her curse

The traveler walks down towards a flying concrete cube. The tower rises in-between the stone walls of a ruin along the stream.

Upon entering, one is greeted by the resounding echo of the water drop on a metal tray.

One day, when she(Echo) observed Narcissus wandering in the pathless woods, she loved him and she followed him ...

Oh, how she longed to make her passion known! ...

He flies from her. ‘Take off your hands! you shall not fold your arms around me. Better death than such a one should ever caress me!’ her great love increases with neglect; her miserable body wastes away, wakeful with sorrows; ... nothing remains except her bones and voice

Naught she answers save, ‘Caress me!’ ...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses

8 CE

Through an automatic system a drop of water is released down the pipe, resulting in an echo that repeteadly fills the room.

The

The method of rehabilitating the reedbed is to offer a diversity of micro-habitats through changes in the wetland structure.

• Incorporating a network of ditches and pools

• Ensuring connectivity to facilitate movement of the fauna.

• Areas of deeper water (more than 1.5 meters to prevent reed dominance)

• Approximately 25-30% of the area should consist of open water.

• A mix of gentle and steep gradients.

Interpretation

IRIS LAKE the peak of rainbows

On a hill nearby, two rooms offer games of light, darkness and rainbows.

Iris on lofty Mimas was wroth with them all and utterly prevented them. And at her rebuke they fled all together...

Callimachus, Hymn to Delos ca. BC 350 - 250

Iris is a messenger goddess traveling by means of the rainbow. For a while, she sat on Mimas mountain to prevent Leto from giving birth to Artemis and Apollo.

Room 1

By moving the light along the grid, one achieves a full circle rainbow on the surface of glass beads.

Room 2

Brise-soleil systems open automatically according to the time of the day, allowing the prism to create a rainbow.