Follow me I (2013) – Follow me II (2020) > Collectif Blah Blah Blah

The team BLAH BLAH BLAH returns with its pioneering approach to the landscape by investing a second plot located in the extension of Follow me I. Already, in 2013, it was by a very strong anthropic act, dictated by an excessively dense nature which had covered all traces of previous human activity, that the collective had carried out a very large brushcutting. The objective was then to clear a clearing, which had caused the setting bare of a horton shed, fruit trees and bambo feet. All the organic plant matter resulting from this clearing had been arranged to redraw the space, and thereby exercised its biodiversity function by its decomposition on the site : Follow me I was created. For Follow me II, the first gesture of BLAH BLAH BLAH was a complex walk in the high herbaceous layer to take some measures : a new invitation to exploration, to another form of landscape experience, always with this primary desire of designers of a real letting go with all preconceived ideas facing an exuberant nature. Both seek above all a real dialogue with the site through the gestures of clearing and gardening. Zoé Joarlette and Monika Malikova also wish to integrate the visitor into their quest for natural environments. Therefore, at the edge of Follow me I, begins a sinuous and complex wandering in this plant mass where it is difficult to trace a path without being diverted by the vegetation in place because the approach aims to touche as little as possible the species in place, and most importantly take advantage of it. If sedge has taken over at the foot of a magnificent marsault willow, an old oak tree is lying on the ground, while an old fruit tree covered with moss and lichen provides shade. Thus naturally takes place on the reclaimed space a promotion of existing plant environments via the staging of the edge. The stroll then arouses several emotions in the visitor : courage, humility and wonder in front of a subtly wild nature. This emotion is all the more strong for BLAH BLAH BLAH that it contrasts with the clearing of Follow me I.