Eternal Forest: 1,000 forest sanctuaries for 1,000 years

Involving expressive collaboration and co-evolution of human and natural systems and individuals within them, the Eternal Forest project invites participants and witnesses to adopt a deep time and change perspective in which we are active shapers, and then just parts of the system at the same time. Reflecting the complex and reciprocal flow of relationships over time, places, species, and ways of thinking, Eternal Forest demonstrates regenerative expression on multiple levels.

From the website: "The world where forests are appreciated as living beings for their beauty, deep connection, biodiversity and peace!

Today, old-growth forests are few; many people have never experienced the awe of being in the presence of a 1,000-year-old being. This vision makes this experience possible for those who come after us. It is an invitation to become part of history, by co-creating a new kind of ecological artwork – establishing an Eternal Forest Sanctuary for 1,000 years.

Eternal Forest multidisciplinary art project by Evgenia Emets and Eternal Forest Global Team explores the human relationship with forests, biodiversity, time and the sacred. Looking at a timeline beyond human life – a hundred, a thousand, 10,000 years, how can art be created at this timescale?

Eternal Forest is the vision to create 1000 Eternal Forest Sanctuaries across the World and to protect them for 1000 years. Each sanctuary – a gift of ancient trees and biodiversity to future generations. An expression of hope, love and care for those who will come after us.
Let us be remembered as the generations which created 1000 forest sanctuaries, changing humanity’s relationship to nature forever!

It is an invitation to become part of history, by co-creating a new kind of ecological artwork – establishing an Eternal Forest Sanctuary for 1,000 years anywhere on Planet Earth."

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