It is a research about separation that led us to present this project. It was generated during the Covid-19 pandemic, at a time when borders were closed and meeting friends a family from abroad was impossible. It was impossible to share a physical space, and with that, impossible for the other to sense the environment we were spending time in.

When dear ones are far away, can we connect to them through the space we are in? If they can’t come to the space, could the space go to them? How to materialize the feel of a place, to make it reach the ones far away?

The idea came to turn the space we were in into an object easy to send: paper. This is how we started making a big recycled paper out of fragments of the places we were at.

The handmade recycled paper became a landscape itself, containing elements and memories of the visited places and transporting them into another space, further in time. ]

This paper was presented in the form of a durational performative installation, where people were invited to take a piece of it to send it to their dear ones far from them.

The paper was made with old paper, carton packages and plant materials found in frequently visited parks, and contained seeds. Therefore, the receiver of the letter could plant the piece of paper and let plants grow, recreating a small environment similar to the one we have been spending time in Prague. The whole paper-making process was documented and projected during the exhibition. A composition of sounds recorded in the visited places and during the making process was also played at the same time.