Call for participation in straw art making
Fifth Festival of Slama art, 17-22 August 2010.
Village of Lug in Baranja county, Croatia
The story of Slama (straw) has from the beginning been a tendency to for “higher grounds”, for the sculptural monumentality. The whole lowland spreading around us in some kind searches for greatness as it silently calls elevation. How else would all those tiny wheat seeds, which sprout so fragilely, grow up so high, like thousands of small cathedrals, like the strong Slavonia oak tree. The human being itself distinguishes oneself by the upright walk; all these big and small constructional miracles of nature keep in their own and fascinating way persisting gravity.
This year is devoted to the tower. Here every village has its church tower, somewhere else it’s the minaret, …, or an obelisk, even the nomadic people knew totems or ritual poles. This vertical has always had a spiritual dimension, even though not everyone did build in harmony with this principle and when those qualities and this essence get neglected it comes to a tragedy or a divine intervention, which the thunder and the card represent.
By Nikola Faller, Art Director
