Landart-sculpture by Joachim Eckl in cooperation with Trish Dickinson, Rob Verschoor, Ina de Bruyn and Anabel Fornell-Watson

2005
Palestine

This landart sculpture is based on the agricultural method which was developed for the cultivation of hop. Its basic structure results from the understanding of the basic needs of the hop plant: This plant grows up to 7 metres into the sky.

The project Hope Field creates and symbolizes hope concerning a certain place of land. Hop is therefore the only plant that is able to grow in this network structure. Thereby, the construction of this landart sculpture creates a field for social networking. Personal hope and the desire to help, work as fuel for this common activity. This structure can only arise in a team-work-process. All participants work on common ground, on common goals and values. By thriving up and linking the wires together the social network structure of the Hope Field is being used and a netting of wire bonds is being drawn into the sky. The Hope Field works literally as a social sewing machine.

In 2005 Joachim Eckl started to develop the Hope Field for Palestine, Israel and Egypt together with Trish Dickinson, Rob Verschoor, Ina de Bruyn and Anabel Fornell-Watson.