Memory of the Land

2011

“If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won’t see anything” - Ruth Bernhard.

I believe that every place on the earth, no matter people inhabited it or not, has its unique memory. The nature itself contains some energy information about all previous times till the moment of the birth of the Earth. People could only try to come closer and feel the stream of this Knowledge contained in Nature and Land. Every place is changed and developed under the influence of nature cataclysm, climate changes and human deeds, every time growing new “cultural layers”. This process resembles the stratification of annual growth rings of a tree. How that period of time when the legendary leader Ajk founded first state of Armenia, when ancient people first studied crafts and agriculture, when unique Armenian culture with its music and dances was appearing leaves its traces on this territory? With what kind of energy did it endow this land and is it possible for a contemporary person to sink into it, feel this energy and absorb it?