Total Landscape Experience

11.05.2025

Kőszikla Szurdok, Hungary

There is no gallery, no designated viewing point, and no fixed position from which to encounter the work. There is only a path through the gorge.

Fallen trees, protruding roots, water, rocks, narrow passages, and unstable ground made the passage difficult. The route had to be negotiated step by step.

The walk becomes a form of reading.

After a challenging stretch, we reached an area enclosed by sand walls. The walls were covered with inscriptions.

We examined and photographed them, leaving them undisturbed.

We did not understand the inscriptions. They were already disappearing with the sand. Why write them here?

To understand, one must walk.

A Landscape That Acts

The gorge does not illustrate an idea imposed upon it.

Its existing conditions — erosion, vegetation, water, fallen trees, rock formations, and the route itself — determine how the work unfolds.

The work follows the principles of Revealed Realism: we begin with what is already there and allow the conditions of the place to redirect the artistic action.

Here, the place determined not only how we moved, but what we encountered and how we responded to it.

The inscriptions were not ours to alter.

We left them as we found them and recorded them through photography.

The work does not attempt to decipher their words. It follows the impulse that brought them to this place.