Rewilding Tasting

Rewilding Tasting was a field inquiry developed in Oostvaardersplassen, a landscape formed when water remained in the reclaimed Flevopolder and reeds were sown before human control receded and ecological processes continued largely on their own.

The project began with the act of visiting. To visit was to arrive with attention, to acclimatize the senses, and to remember our innate participation within an ecosystem.

Adapting methods from wine tasting, the work explored how breathing, sensing, and slow perception could function as instruments for reading a landscape. Air, soil, moisture, and vegetal presence became notes to be received rather than resources to be used. Through this practice, tasting became a way of listening, and listening became a way of re-entering relationship.

Rewilding Tasting investigated how humans, other species, and land might rediscover forms of mutual orientation and learn again how to live and die within nourishing relations.