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Cleaning the Forest floor and preparing to plant new trees
On this spot of the Secret Forest the brambles had taken over and nothing could grow anymore. Last December I cleaned up while waiting to plant new trees to make up for the existing forest fabric all around. That is, a mixture rich in oaks, maples, ash trees, chestnut trees, walnuts, rowan trees, cornus, conifers…
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Crossing the valley in winter
My third winter in the Mannarolo valley is almost over. Those times that I return in the evening through these woods and its mule tracks is when I better reflect on the meaning of things and of being here. Where it is necessary to point towards the darkest part of the horizon and enter a…
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Wolf pack spotted near the Forest Lab tonight
A pack of 4 wolves was patrolling the Secret Forest tonight and they passed a few meters away from the Forest Lab. They are particularly shy towards the trailcamera, they continouosly check for everything and a trailcamera make them nervous. More than other species do. I should find another camera with less obvious IR illuminator,…
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I am stuck in the Secret Forest after a snowstorm
Last night snowed and I cannot use neither the rover or the bike to get to the valley. I tried but the tires immediately slided unpromisingly. Since there are cliffs everywhere for kilometers I convinced myself that I am not able to drive in these conditions. Then I moved on foot to the Mannarolo’s alp,…
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The Secret Forest as you’ve never seen it before
The Secret Forest as you’ve never seen it before. The house and the Art Lab can be seen at the beginning and at the end of the video. There it is where I live and work. It is an ancient off grid house, meaning that it is completely self supported (Water from a spring source,…
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The Pears and the Apples from the Forest
Two weeks ago the man who lived in my house 60-70 years ago (he is now over ninety!) Suggested that I hang the still unripe pears on the beams of the house, as they used to do in the past. When the pears turn yellow they are ready, so you avoid them being eaten by…
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News from yet Another War – 2nd spot
News from yet Another War . The second spot in the forest has been set up with the latest updates from Ukraine. Photographs and captions by Mstyslav Chernov Exhibition curated by NUVA in the Secret Forest Caption: Medics in the besieged Black Sea port of Mariupol were raced to save lives on Thursday as the…
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News from yet another War
As Anticipated, The NUVA Secret Forest is opening its gates to the internet community and, so far, only to a very limited number of visitors. We are working hard but nothing is really ready yet. The development of the events in the world urge us to start anyway. The current exhibition is “News from yet…
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The Frosted Pear Tree
Introducing the Secret Forest, the beating heart of NUVA. Although today is an awful day for the world, the role of this natural museum in our contemporaneity will become clearer in the coming days.The opening work is the one that I initially set up as a Christmas tree but then I imagined as a signal…
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One year in Mannarolo
A little more than year ago I climbed to these mountains and never came back. When I stumbled across these three oak leaves on the snow many ideas came into my mind.
An off grid art laboratory in the Secret Forest
