Snail

Land art objects are often created from natural materials. Therefore, they look appropriate both in nature – in the forest or field, and in a city park, and there is no sense of foreignness. The «Snail» is made from willow vines, and it's unique in that the image is dynamic. Immediately after it's created, the sculpture is bright green, then the sun and rain change its color to yellow, brown and gray. It turns out that nature contributes to the emergence of the art object.

Nikolai Polissky's project «The rooks have arrived», 2008 (photo from polissky.ru).

The artist Kristina Evstigneeva created her first vine art object in 2016 as part of the Interpretation competition in the Curonian Spit National Park. Prior to that, Christina had already worked with natural materials and created small architectural forms. For her competition project, she took the specific willow vine that grows in the Kaliningrad region. As for the object, she chose the image of an elk, the largest animal that lives in the national park.

In 2021, the artist created a series of snail sculptures for the Kaliningrad Regional Children and Youth Center for Ecology, Local History and Tourism.

A series of snail sculptures for the Kaliningrad Regional Children and Youth Center for Ecology, Local History and Tourism.

Caring is the theme of the final season of the public art program «Tales of the Golden Apples». Caring about loved ones and ourselves, about a dialogue with the outside world, about what remains after us. But this is not only the motive of this particular season; the curators, artists and all those involved have invested this meaning in the program throughout the 5 years of its functioning. In 2022, we simply emphasized this concept. As part of the «Dialogue with the City», a series of master classes were held in Almetyevsk courtyards, where residents created art objects together with artists and other specialists.

Collection of vines for the «Snail».