What would it be like to inhabit a river?
To dwell in the wilderness of water?
"Living with and within waterscapes is living with continual and rapid changes"
David
"The river became someone that we could visit everyday with curiosity about how she would behave."
Michelle
"After it rained for a full day and night, the river had turned into a majestic being."
Mirte
"I feel forever young when I relate myself to a rounded pebble, the result of millions of years traveling through rivers"
Paul
"I learned that water is a building material, I never noticed that before. Without water, clay would be dry and quite unusable… Without water it wouldn’t be clay…"
Maarten
"Water contains air and light"
Guenther
making a dry stone wall of mountain rocks
a rock floor between the stones
creating new wet habitats with the wall
making a rammed earth floor with mountain clay
collective precision work to embed the horizontal floor into the sediments of the riverbed
polishing the clay to create a smooth, stone - like surface
merging object and landscape into a topographic furniture
building an oven of river pebbles and mountain clay
as Edgar put it: ‘being in bodycontact with the Earth’
for one week we lived within the river and the becoming of the topographic furnitures
building became a form of encounter - with the river, with the craft and with eachother
on the last day we celebrated the new places with a big dinner cooked in the river stone oven
