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STONES, GARDENS AND CHARMS

Workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles

What do stones do in a garden? Perhaps they are part of a bench, a connecting path, or a dividing wall. What do the stones do in a forest? They can be fragments of a cave, a refuge for critters looking for a moment of privacy or a filter for the water that crosses a river. What do the stones do in the city? They are the fragment of a monument, a projectile in a protest or something that gets stuck in a shoe. Observing stones can help us think about other time scales, in dimensions that go beyond us as individuals. At first glance, a stone may seem like a static object, but its formation and movement have shaped the landscapes we inhabit.

Stones, Gardens and Charms is a reflective workshop to exercise contemplation, a space to question and rethink the garden as a containment and classification mechanism of what we understand by “nature”. We will reflect on the methods we use to observe and how they are reflected in the way we perceive our spaces and gardens. We will carry out some exploration exercises to understand the stones again and build other forms of “classification”, imagining that the stones can also be spells to attract water, be linked to lunar cycles, stories, esotericisms, to learn to observe, all we think, doesn’t seem to move.

This workshop with Miguel Cinta Robles is part of Arte Abierto’s Public Program around our current exhibition Modthern Nature by Gabriela Galván.

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MIGUEL CINTA ROBLES
He lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. He studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. His interests focus on building models that merge agriculture and sculpture with pedagogical strategies that enable forms of socialization and learning in connection with the land. He is the founder of “Domingo de cerro” a project dedicated to producing routes, walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. Currently, he collaborates in the syntropic reforestation and eco-construction project “Terreno familiar” where he dedicates himself to planting, giving workshops, building earth ovens and investigating, together with his family, models to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence within the ecosystems and the community of Tlalixtac de Cabrera.

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