The Project
Slovenian sculptor Marko Pogacnik installed 28 stones at Foxhollow farm in Kentucky in March of 2008. With a class of Geomantic students he was able to carve and install the 28 stones in 10 days. Marko guided his students on a spiritual tour of the land in order to chart its energy fields and understand the spiritual connections that are present at Foxhollow.
Marko Pogacnik is the author “Nature Spirits and Elemental Being” and “Sacred Geography”.
Marko Pogacnik on Art and Spirituality
The Story to be told
The story of this artistic installation at Foxhollow farm will unfold in the pages of this website. With full personal accounts of the experience and a spiritual analysis the work you will see the narrative develop and the story will be told. It is a tale of mystical beauty, holistic understanding, and ones personal pursuit for spiritual truth.
An introduction to your narrator. Panman the Green Man will unfold the wondrous mystery.
The Green Man is a wondrous and mysterious being who wears many disguises – vegetative, animal, human, and suprahuman. For the preliterate world he embodies the unfolding cycle of greenness and growth, the realm of fields, forests, and hedgrows upon which all life depends and without which there could be no food for man or beast. For the civilized world he took other forms: spiritual intelligence of nature; of a character from folklore personifying the eternal round of the agricultural year; of a mythic hero who transcends death to bring us the wisdom of the Otherworld; of a mysterious challenger who demands that we look again at our connections with the world around us.
Foxhollow Farm
Foxhollow Farm operates with holistic understanding. From the relationship of the cows to the land, the biodymanic preparations, and the personal connection to the earth, foxhollow has a strong spiritual orientation. With large rolling fields, beautiful forests, and a self sustaining community foxhollow is an energy force that draws people to get involved in their mission.
Janey Newton introduces us the idea that Marko Pogacnik, a sculptor from Slovenia was interested in doing a stone installment on her farm.
Louisville Kentucky. March 20th – 30th, 2008.
The Stone Installation of Marko Pogacnik happens at Foxhollow with the assistance of his students.
Sacred Geography
Chapter 1: Foxhollow
Marko discusses his decision for choosing Foxhollow farm in Kentucky as his first North American Spiritual Art Installment. He describes the land as being a place of past pilgrimage and identifies the specific location for the installment as a sacred landscape.
Anna Pogacnik
Anna Pogacnik explains her perspective on the land at Foxhollow. She explains the nature of patterns and the potential of occurrences that repeat them selves over time. The history of landscape becomes a blueprint for events to come.
Anna Pogacnik joined the group unannounced to be part of the Foxhollow Lithopuncture stone installment. The daughter of Marko Pogacnik, Anna has taught Geomancy for several years and is loved by her students.
