Inn The Ground
Weaving Our Roots
Set amidst the picturesque hillside of Oregon wine country is luxury getaway Inn The Ground. Founded on the principle of “hospitality for all species,” the Inn was built on the property of The Ground, a regenerative farm, aiming to provide guests the opportunity to connect with nature and the living beings cared for on the farm. Inn The Ground pioneers a fresh and important understanding of our relationship with life; one that celebrates and weaves together our connections with the land from which we came, and all that grows from it. At Inn the Ground, guests can connect to their roots, to the moment and to one another.
The art collection seeks to embody the character of the property, highlighting and promoting its core values of sustainability and harmony with nature.
Pretty Please
Tina Sturzenegger photographs animals in their familiar surroundings and close to the herd. This artwork captures a moment of closeness during the "Alpabfahrt"; the annual parade of cows heading mainland from the Swiss Alps before winter, in which communities welcome these honourable cattle back from grazing with flower wreaths and songs. This elegant portrait of a Highland Cattle cow mirrors the hotel owner’s beloved cows and pays tribute to her love for the animals.
Weaving Our Roots
This special commissioned piece by Trudy Perry intuitively creates a unique story for the space, hand dying colours specific to the project. Her choice of wool complements the area by bringing a 3-dimensional element to our collection. In playing with textures, guests are encouraged to enter a more tactile mindset and interact with the earth around them.
Roca/Stone
The artwork by Ana Martinez features a variety of stones native to the mountains of Eastern Oregon. The Picture Jasper is a type of agate stone characterized by the bands of different colours, made from the movements of mud and minerals. These stones take their name from the "pictures” that can be seen in the patterns that strongly resemble the landscapes that they come from. For those that use stones for their spiritual energy, Picture Jasper is charged with grounding power that encourages connection to the earth.
Local to Oregon: Crater Lake OG
To create his handmade woodcut prints, Erik Linton sources straight from the forest, finding already fallen trees in meaningful places. About his work, Linton says, “I’m just publishing the story of a place as written by a tree over decades and sometimes hundreds of years.”
This particular tree ring print was sourced in Oregon, telling the story of the surrounding landscape at Inn the Ground.
Materiality of Nature
Raku Inoue is another artist in this collection inspired by the beauty and materiality of nature. Using found flora and fauna, much of the time sourced from his own backyard in Canada, he creates a work rich in imagination. The works are chosen to inspire guests to look at the environment around them on a macro and micro level.
Photo: Roku Inoue
Fox Gloves and Tiger Moths
The work by Joanna Charlotte was chosen to reflect a telescope view of a garden at eye level, getting “up close and personal” with nature.
Outreached
This collage takes on the intriguing human anatomy that seamlessly intertwines with flowers and animal life. Deeply moved by the mysteries and potentialities of the human body, Travis Bedel poetically reveals the link between nature and humanity. Through his work, Travis invites viewers to contemplate the harmonious coexistence of these elements, emphasizing the interconnected threads that weave through both the intricacies of our physical forms and the broader tapestry of the natural world.
Sustaining Craft & Environment
Morii Design is a dynamic textile design studio based in Gandhinagar, Gujaratout, India that reveres traditional Indian hand-embroidery while incorporating a taste for the contemporary aesthetic. The studio brings work to craftswomen in rural Indian communities, sustaining the craft while ensuring the livelihood of people it employs. Morii sources raw materials locally and uses only natural and recycled materials, contributing no waste in its production.
This piece was created by Morii Design for Inn the Ground, a fitting addition to the collection, reflecting the Ground’s sustainable practices.
Photo: Morii Design
Photo: Morii Design
Meditation
Hillary Waters brings together materials and processes to articulate the convergence of humanity and the natural realm, incorporating textile traditions in collaboration with botanical material. Within her creations, plants and fabric serve as representations with both specific and symbolic ties to location, time, individuals, and memories: Cloth and thread draws in the enduring experience of humanity with the material. Leaves, as a medium, exhibit infinite renewability, exquisite uniqueness, and a ubiquitous nature that often goes unnoticed—remarkable, yet hidden in plain sight.
This embroidered leaf piece serves as a visual testament to the deep interweaving of the human experience and nature.
Perspectives
“Everyone has their own view on the world, and my work is my way of expressing this idea; it’s impossible to view something from every perspective at the same time. ”
Cinta Vidal Agulló’s work Outing is a thought-provoking visual metaphor that invites the viewer to contemplate the infinite perspectives that coexist simultaneously withinin our reality.
Agulló’s distinctive style involves crafting gravity-defying perspectives of architectural structures, creating visual narratives that challenge our conventional understanding of space and perception. The works delve into notions of how the individual may not be, as they seem within their surrounding environments.
Works Provided
Client: Inn the Ground
Works Provided: 17
Artists: 12
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