Hazel Hazel Hazel Hut
Installation view, Columbia MFA Open Studios: Hazel tree energy amulet made by Alfred Svoboda, New Lifestyle hazel nut energy bar gifted by Alfred Svoboda, hazel twig from the yard of someone named Sebastian – used to capture a spider from the grave of Paracelsus in Saint Sebastian cemetery, Salzburg, Austria, acrylic sheet, wood /// digital prints, Hazel botanical print /// HD video
Hazel tree energy amulet made by Alfred Svoboda, New Lifestyle hazel nut energy bar gifted by Alfred Svoboda, hazel twig from the yard of someone named Sebastian – used to capture a spider from the grave of Paracelsus in Saint Sebastian cemetery, Salzburg, Austria, acrylic sheet, wood
digital prints, Hazel botanical print
hut intervention
installation view, Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria: Vitrine (with Hazel tree energy amulet made by Alfred Svoboda, New Lifestyle hazel nut energy bar gifted by Alfred Svoboda, hazel twig from the yard of someone named Sebastian – used to capture a spider from the grave of Paracelsus in Saint Sebastian cemetery, Salzburg, Austria) /// maps to the a hut /// video showing the hut outside of Hallein, Austria on the hiking trail to Bad Dürrnberg where the spider from Paracelsus’ grave was released and the intervention was made
vitrine detail: Hazel tree energy amulet made by Alfred Svoboda, New Lifestyle hazel nut energy bar gifted by Alfred Svoboda, hazel twig from the yard of someone named Sebastian – used to capture a spider from the grave of Paracelsus in Saint Sebastian cemetery, Salzburg, Austria
I captured a spider from Paracelsus’ grave in Saint Sebastian cemetery and placed it in an empty hut on a mountain in a nearby village in which I made an intervention (shelves and a stool that I built, books, hazel nuts, canned salmon, and a variety of other objects). The hazel twig from the yard of someone named Sebastian that I used to capture the spider is shown as part of a sculpture containing a hazel tree energy amulet and a hazel nut energy bar obtained from local folk healer Alfred Svoboda.
The video documents both the capture and relocation of the spider as well as my interaction with Alfred Svoboda.