on the road - Josua Wechsler

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_single_image image=”1131″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]I was looking for a wild place.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

Last April I left with two backpacks, packed with food for a month, some tools and clothes.

It was a challenge to reach the spot. I had never been there before and did not really know what to expect. The only thing I knew was that I would stay there. Stay there for one month, 28 days that would feel different than the ones before.

My aim was to connect with my surroundings and to observe. Observe the inhabitants of the wild place, the nature, the change of time and my own thoughts.

On my daily walks I avoided leaving traces in the sand of the river banks, so that I could come back the day after and discover the place as if I have never been there before. One month I did not create anything. I just observed, this was something I have never done before.

A cave became my home, the fire my best friend. The river broke the silence and brought fresh drinking water. Rare sunlight was feeding my soul. Dark nights changed everything, turning the eyes towards the inside and the universe at the same time.

I haven’t seen a single person in these 28 days… But I did feel connected with the water, the wind, the fire, the stones, the trees, the earth and the inhabitants of the wild place.

I am happy that they still exist, these wild places. Thank you for letting me be your guest.

Since then I have been working on a group of sculptures and a film about the wild place. The story will be told with wood, stones and bones, collected during the stay in the mountains.

I am very lucky and happy with my residency at Make Eindhoven where the sculptures grow to their final form. Together with the Mondriaanfonds they support this special project. Thank you so much!

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]film document about my Stand Up Paddle Board journey[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9J7XwOethk” align=”center”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sempacher Woche 18. Februar 2021 / Surseer Woche 25. Februar 2021[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1061″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]WAZ Duisburg

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]km magazine 2020 / interview by Florence Husen / coverpicture by Auke Hamers[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1084″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]blossom is back in Leiden

Thank you BPS and BIL!

picture by: S.van Noort[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”862″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]working on roots, artist in residence, sculpture park Kloster Schönthal, Switzerland 2019[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”873″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]film document / roots / sculpture park Kloster Schönthal[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/bYOOiggYLFw”][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Atlas mountains Morocco 2018, bicycle trip Switzerland – Morocco

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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]installing “I am the mountain”, Buisse Heide, Netherlands 2018

picture by: Ron Dirven[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”585″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]working on “I am the mountain”[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”564″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]“floating in space serie” @ Prospects & Concepts Mondriaan Fonds, ART Rotterdam, Netherlands 2018

thank you: Mondriaan Fonds, Stijn Huijts, Leony, Acrylic One[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”470″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]working on mugluk, Breda, Netherlands 2017

thank you: Remko

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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Alpenpässeweg, Switzerland 2017

thank you: Wouter & Margot

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thank you: Wouter & Margot[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”409″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

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Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece

pictures by: René Hardegger, Josua Wechsler[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”390,391″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/185161509″][vc_column_text]

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]working on betonblocks, Hamburg, Germany 2016

thank you: Jonas Ott & Margot Zweers[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”133″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/182961115″][vc_column_text]

pictures by: Stefanie Sigle[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”82,168″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/178190882″][vc_column_text]

thank you: Paul, Ed / Hollandpacking, Paul, Teun, Isa, Margot, Jonas[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”231,233,230″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/136641085″][vc_column_text]

thank you: Dirk, Margot, Frans[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”405″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/108886436″][vc_column_text]

picture by: Jonas Ott[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”393″ img_size=”large”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/93872154″][vc_column_text]

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pictures by: Claudio Waser, Olivier Heller, Philippe Oesch[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”73,165,167,163″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

picture by: Margot Zweers[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”397″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]

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