RESEARCH FOR 004+ : ANDY GOLDSWORTHY AND THE REFUGE D’ART — In France’s southern alps, a handful of land art installations by Andy Goldsworthy sprinkle along a 160km circular trail through the mountainous landscape called Refuge d’Art. Each site is a dialogue between human and geological time scales, situated in the ruins of centuries old abandoned villages - built from upcycled scattered materials of lost houses and chapels. Two of us from Aerthship drove up to the base of a foothill in Thoard, staring up at a stone chapel dwarfed by the surrounding natural reserve and its 1.5 km hike up. A rocky, skinny incline eventually lead us to Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine and its views of the farms and long stretches of the famous Provence lavender fields. Inside the small chapel were two benches, a shrine for Sainte-Madeleine filled with trinkets and letters of travelers past, and a perfectly cut cavity on the stone wall, opposing the entrance. One high step onto dense stone ushered us step inside of the hole and then we became part of the structure. The space meant for one, wasn’t cramped or cavernous, but shaped in such a way that welcomed us and made us feel like we were meant to be there; alone on the hill, embedded into the chapel, and the deep geological time that connected everything there.