Project Vision: Bringing Art and Nature to Public Spaces
Our objective with Art Outside and In is to emphasize nature and art within public spaces, bypassing reliance on traditional museum hours or venue closures. The spaces encourage personal reflection, meditation, and a “call for silence” within each of us, inviting all to connect more deeply with art, nature, and each other.
Let us create spaces that connect us to each other, our environment, and the silence within
The project aims to create flexible, mobile structures that serve as gathering places for meditation, tea ceremonies, martial arts sessions, dance, relaxation, or even quiet communion with nature. Designed to fit harmoniously in forests, beaches, town centers, monasteries, or mountain landscapes, these sacred spaces will offer the following:
- Civic and Community Utility: These spaces can also serve cities by providing outdoor venues for local cafés or events, reviving public areas with simple, elegant structures that engage communities and enhance cultural exchange.
- Crisis Resilience and Refuge: In times of natural or human-made crises, the spaces could serve as shelters—beautiful, meditative structures offering respite for displaced individuals or relaxation zones in refugee camps, possibly in partnership with the United Nations. Their light, mobile, and easily assembled design can also be adapted for temporary housing or emergency use.
Art, Imagination, and Collaboration
Depending on the partnerships and funding secured, the structures can be crafted from sustainable materials such as bamboo or lightweight metals. While the physical forms are simple and portable—some designed to fit in a backpack, others secured for longer-term public installations—the real magic lies within the space they create: a place for imagination, reflection, and shared experience.
In support of this vision, funding is sought for Nathalie Ishizuka to work with Japanese artisans in Japan or Brussels. Collaborations would focus on traditional crafts such as tatami-making and Japanese scroll framing, allowing Nathalie to bring authentic craftsmanship into each installation. This partnership would enhance the cultural depth of the project and foster a unique fusion of Japanese artistry and contemporary, meditative spaces.
Nathalie Ishizuka, the artist behind this project, envisions these cubes and spaces as a canvas to explore the four elements in her art with the public. Each installation provides an immersive experience, where Nathalie’s artwork, nature, and shared silence combine to inspire deeper connections. Collaborations with other artists is envisioned as with the photographer and sound engineer Stef Van Anlsenoy.
If you would like to support or co-create spaces of beauty and contemplation that touch hearts and bring communities closer together, please reach out to Nathalie Ishizuka to discuss financing or collaboration opportunities.
Element Water, Acrylic, 120cm x 120cm, Artist Nathalie Ishizuka
Imagine with Us Experiencing Art within Structures that Accentuate our own Nature
. To make small spaces beautiful, sacred and explored by our full potential.
Credits to Pierre Sernet the photographer and also master of tea in these photos taken in his cube. Sernet created these experiences around the world. Please visit his site and enjoy his work and photography.
We are working like Pierre Sernet with a cube (one of the essential shapes of the universe), and the creation of sacred spaces within to sit in silence. To experience nature. To experience meditation. Our cube will be a variation that allows other artistic expression and in synch with meditative experiences within and without the cube.