UNA LINEA DE AIRE HECHA CON LA MIRADA (6630 meters) A Line of Air Made with Looking from 6360 meters.

This Land Art work is a part of a project called ANBOTO. A treatise, a geographic visual summary about landscape, in the shape of a book that took more than five years to realize. This is the book's web:
http://www.anboto.airplace.org/

Place and geography:
The project consists in the definition of an imaginary line determined by two geographical points which, by coincidence, mutually “frame” and define each other. These geographical points are found in two mountains, Anboto and Udalatx which are separated by a valley named Atxondo. These two caves form an imaginary line from east to west measuring 6330 metros. A straight line which cuts through the arc of the path of the sun from dawn to dusk. The same effect occurs when from the inside of Kobaundi, the cave situated on Udalatx, we look out westwards at Anboto set within the dark walls of the cave as if they were a window frame. In the middle of the imposing pyramid shaped mountain we can make out a dark point more than 6000 metres away: this is Gerriko Koba cave where our gaze through the air comes to an end. This line travels just over the top of Besaide: a small mountain where the borders of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa all meet.

Conceptualization:
A line of air made with looking is a land art project from 2012 which is situated in the Urkiola National Park. The work is inspired by the proposal made by Richard Long in 1967 entitled “A line made by walking”. While, with his work, Long was proposing the experience and the process of the perception of nature as it is being walked through and also transformed by the human “footprint”, in the Anboto project we are talking about a previous state: The subtle contemplation of the natural space which is unchanged itself but which transforms our living experience through the look which travels at the speed of light through the landscape.

Can a glance modify the landscape?
The mental space determines, through the will, the movement in the landscape by physically modifying it: the path is the trace, the trace of that determination

UNA LINEA DE AIRE HECHA CON LA MIRADA (6630 meters) A Line of Air Made with Looking from 6360 meters.

This Land Art work is a part of a project called ANBOTO. A treatise, a geographic visual summary about landscape, in the shape of a book that took more than five years to realize. This is the book's web:
http://www.anboto.airplace.org/

Place and geography:
The project consists in the definition of an imaginary line determined by two geographical points which, by coincidence, mutually “frame” and define each other. These geographical points are found in two mountains, Anboto and Udalatx which are separated by a valley named Atxondo. These two caves form an imaginary line from east to west measuring 6330 metros. A straight line which cuts through the arc of the path of the sun from dawn to dusk. The same effect occurs when from the inside of Kobaundi, the cave situated on Udalatx, we look out westwards at Anboto set within the dark walls of the cave as if they were a window frame. In the middle of the imposing pyramid shaped mountain we can make out a dark point more than 6000 metres away: this is Gerriko Koba cave where our gaze through the air comes to an end. This line travels just over the top of Besaide: a small mountain where the borders of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa all meet.

Conceptualization:
A line of air made with looking is a land art project from 2012 which is situated in the Urkiola National Park. The work is inspired by the proposal made by Richard Long in 1967 entitled “A line made by walking”. While, with his work, Long was proposing the experience and the process of the perception of nature as it is being walked through and also transformed by the human “footprint”, in the Anboto project we are talking about a previous state: The subtle contemplation of the natural space which is unchanged itself but which transforms our living experience through the look which travels at the speed of light through the landscape.

Can a glance modify the landscape?
The mental space determines, through the will, the movement in the landscape by physically modifying it: the path is the trace, the trace of that determination

UNA LINEA DE AIRE HECHA CON LA MIRADA (6630 meters) A Line of Air Made with Looking from 6360 meters.

This Land Art work is a part of a project called ANBOTO. A treatise, a geographic visual summary about landscape, in the shape of a book that took more than five years to realize. This is the book's web:
http://www.anboto.airplace.org/

Place and geography:
The project consists in the definition of an imaginary line determined by two geographical points which, by coincidence, mutually “frame” and define each other. These geographical points are found in two mountains, Anboto and Udalatx which are separated by a valley named Atxondo. These two caves form an imaginary line from east to west measuring 6330 metros. A straight line which cuts through the arc of the path of the sun from dawn to dusk. The same effect occurs when from the inside of Kobaundi, the cave situated on Udalatx, we look out westwards at Anboto set within the dark walls of the cave as if they were a window frame. In the middle of the imposing pyramid shaped mountain we can make out a dark point more than 6000 metres away: this is Gerriko Koba cave where our gaze through the air comes to an end. This line travels just over the top of Besaide: a small mountain where the borders of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa all meet.

Conceptualization:
A line of air made with looking is a land art project from 2012 which is situated in the Urkiola National Park. The work is inspired by the proposal made by Richard Long in 1967 entitled “A line made by walking”. While, with his work, Long was proposing the experience and the process of the perception of nature as it is being walked through and also transformed by the human “footprint”, in the Anboto project we are talking about a previous state: The subtle contemplation of the natural space which is unchanged itself but which transforms our living experience through the look which travels at the speed of light through the landscape.

Can a glance modify the landscape?
The mental space determines, through the will, the movement in the landscape by physically modifying it: the path is the trace, the trace of that determination