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<i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | <i>Written at first person as Robin</i> | ||
<br>During the month of April in the region of Limburg, I entangled myself in a network of beings, mutualism and trophic relationships of decay to produce cheese. By doing so, my ambition was to depict the network in which our primates’ life are tied in when we make food. Moreover, realising our bonds with microscopic beings wether they come from the soil, the cheeses or our guts; was meant to help me experience what makes “us” broader than only-humans. | <br>During the month of April in the region of Limburg, I entangled myself in a network of beings, mutualism and trophic relationships of decay to produce cheese. By doing so, my ambition was to depict the network in which our primates’ life are tied in when we make food. Moreover, realising our bonds with microscopic beings wether they come from the soil, the cheeses or our guts; was meant to help me experience what makes “us” broader than only-humans. | ||
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===Landscape=== | ===Landscape=== | ||
[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_milk-map.jpg|thumb|Map showing where the farms are located compared to Robin’s home and the Academie, including the paths to reach every one of them.]] | [[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_milk-map.jpg|thumb|Map showing where the farms are located compared to Robin’s home and the Academie, including the paths to reach every one of them.]] | ||
The landscape was constituted by a space of ±50km2 area that I browsed for 30 days. This web of 4 farms brought me to meet 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers. This same landscape provides pastures for their domesticated animals (cows and goats) to graze plants that they digest and transform into the milk that I purchased. On my way to each one of the 4 farms, I described the landscape and recorded myself. While cycling, I tried to describe what makes this landscape: the addition of living beings growing, hunting, socialising and working in the surroundings of the road network from home to farms (fields, buzards, sheds, trees, goose, ponds, crows, etc.) | The landscape was constituted by a space of ±50km2 area that I browsed for 30 days. This web of 4 farms brought me to meet 4 Dutch and Belgian farmers. This same landscape provides pastures for their domesticated animals (cows and goats) to graze plants that they digest and transform into the milk that I purchased. On my way to each one of the 4 farms, I described the landscape and recorded myself.<ref>You can listen to excerpts from those recording in the short film [[Landscape, soil, cheese and me]]</ref> While cycling, I tried to describe what makes this landscape: the addition of living beings growing, hunting, socialising and working in the surroundings of the road network from home to farms (fields, buzards, sheds, trees, goose, ponds, crows, etc.) | ||
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===Soil=== | ===Soil=== | ||
[[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_soil-biota-scales.jpg|thumb|3 different scales of observation were used to see as much of the soils’ biota as possible: macro, meso and microscopic.]] | [[File:LandscapeSoilCheeseMe_soil-biota-scales.jpg|thumb|3 different scales of observation were used to see as much of the soils’ biota as possible: macro, meso and microscopic.]] | ||
I | During the last week of April, I extracted a small piece of soil from the pastures of Hoeve de Koeberg, René and Claudia’s organic farm — the farmers I got along with the most. Along the purchased milk, this soil sample was brought back home and “visited” with a microscope to look for living beings in it, reflecting on the decomposers’ primal activity to decay and recycle organic matter, the environmental changes threatening their mutualism<ref>I explored this question through an interview of Gerlinde de </ref>, and its analogy with the way microbe societies make cheeses. | ||
<br>Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | <br>Soil analysis of milk providers: 1 hectare grassland next to the farm's main barn. | ||
#Trowel sampling: 16 small 10cm deep samples mixed together. 10 and 20g extracted and mixed with 100g demineralised water. | #Trowel sampling: 16 small 10cm deep samples mixed together. 10 and 20g extracted and mixed with 100g demineralised water. | ||
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===Me=== | ===Me=== | ||