Wind Forest is only twenty minutes away.drive from Verdun, a small town that grew up on the site of an ancient Gallic settlement. This edge is considered to be a purely industrial, but not a single factory pipe is visible on the horizon. Only hills, coppices and kilometers of fields, rugged creeks. This paradise is for lovers of hiking and horseback riding. Six years ago, the locals decided to hand over a forest area of five thousand hectares to the power of landscape design, and since then a special commission annually identifies candidates for participation in this unusual project. The earliest "works" in the Forest of Winds refer to 1997. Some, the most fragile, nature has swallowed up in several seasons. But most of these creations have become an integral part of the forest. 
Miracle forest
- "A Thousand and One Glance of Moss" by Luc Genara.
- The human silhouette carved into the log fence by Irishman Tony O’Malley is the gateway to the Wind Forest. Through them you can walk or ride a horse.
- "By mistake" - the bridge leading to nowhere, created by the Pole Maciej Albrykowski.
- Among the trees covered with moss and covered with thick ivy is the Canadian Rhino-traveler Roger Godro. It is made of branches and needles, "packed" in a dense mesh.
For example, Irish’s “Sylph” Tony O’Malleyhuman silhouette, carved in the fence of fir trunks. This installation was conceived by the designer as a symbolic gateway to the infinity of the forest. Immediately there were volunteers who volunteered to help in its creation: two weeks later they dug a trench and dug tree trunks into it. Glade, stream, edge, plain or forest cutting - the designers themselves choose places to create their works. At their disposal the richest material: needles, branches, trunks, roots, leaves, streams. About a hundred works of landscape design is a hymn to nature and a warning of danger threatening it. A four-meter-long fork, cut from a solid trunk and stuck in the base of a storm-fallen beech tree, appears before your eyes as an allegory of the land-nurse. The rhinoceros hides itself more often - an endangered animal that “migrated” to the Wind Forest from hot countries and found shelter here. In the depths of fir pine trees, tree trunks are cut at an angle and trimmed with mirrors - this is truly a "ray of light in a dark kingdom"!
- "Fork" by Robert Jakes.
- "Our cubic meter in heaven." This gigantic woodpile was laid down by two women - Stephanie Byutier and Francoise Kremel.
- "The path up" German designer Cornelia Conrads. This "stairway to heaven" of the branches floating in the air was created in 2001.
- On logging in the midst of dense fir Dane Bo Karberg "built" trunks in height. The cut of each log is trimmed with a mirror in which the sun is reflected in clear weather.
Within two weeks set aside for incarnationsthe plan, the designers spend in close contact with the villagers, forest dwellers (for example, a deer calf got into the habit of a German designer) and, of course, the forest itself. Away from roads and settlements, every sound and smell are of particular importance. Everything inspires creativity: the sound of the stream, and the rustle of the wind playing in the thick crowns of oaks, and the ray of sunshine brightly illuminating the clearing. Perception sharpens. Everything is admired: the knobby curves of the trunks, and the sculptural interweaving of the roots, and the fragile grass stems, and the mysterious rustling in the forest often. And if the rain takes you by surprise, you can hide under a spreading tree, among the branches of which thrushes and tits hid, and wait for the wind to clear the clouds ... The ephemeral art of the Forest of Winds shows how fragile the relationship between man and nature is. On these narrow paths, one involuntarily feels like a small part of a huge living organism, which millimeter by millimeter, leaf by leaf, reclaims its rights. 
- "The essence - the existence of" Korean designer Sho Enhe. The stone “sarcophagus” created by him is designed to preserve the trunks and branches of fallen trees.
- The creation of Luke Genara - a green ball of wide leaves, fastened with stems and berries.
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