I’m very spontaneous — I never plan my work. All my works, sculptures and installations are made using natural materials. The Green Nest was completed this year. This installation is nestled in a remote forest in France. I have used hay, bamboo, mud, gunny threads and cowdung to complete the nest.
I’m a nature lover, and what I’ve created here is to lay emphasis on evolution. It’s a great feeling to watch nature transform everything around her — and that’s what I’ve attempted to show in this work.
This sculpture is made of torchi, a special clay preparation locally made in France. It was layered with fertile soil and had seeds sown in it that would begin to germinate and start growing.
The Green Nest will grow naturally; it can fit in at least 160 people. We have been recording and documenting this natural process every week. After a year or two, after being a witness to different seasons, the Nest will disintegrate naturally. The leaves will dry out and the natural materials will all be mud and sand again.
The Tree Houses make this place an ideal respite for those looking for some ‘quiet’ time. It sets about a meditative aura and the blue sky plays the perfect host. It’s just a natural way of things. What takes birth naturally, willingly, becomes a part of the earth sooner or later.
Srinivasa Prasad is an Installation artist
As told to Ganashree Kedlaya
