The initiative began as part of a project competition announced by the Visual Armenia Development Foundation. Our project was dedicated to Hrant Matevossian.
Its starting point was a passage from Matevossian’s essay “When Sleep Seems Like Salvation”. The passage inspired us to launch a long-term, wide-ranging initiative to clean and care for the natural environment.
“Ruined hillsides, ruined fences, houses in need of repair, bad roads, poisoned waters—all this in a country that once flourished. I would like my country to be restored, for us to make these earth-coloured slopes bloom, for the fences and old houses, the dirty villages, the ruined gardens and the poisoned waters—all of it—to be restored. Then our children could feel the beauty of life, the charm of this infinitely beautiful world, from this country and within it, rather than end up in America with empty pockets like beggars and cherish from there an image of a country in bloom.”
We joined this care for nature with the need to protect cultural heritage. Clean-up work was also carried out around the village chapel known as Zoravor. Project lead: Sirush Karyan.
