REST organized a one-day workshop for first-year students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. After arrival the group first walked the grounds together, taking in the land — their atelier for the day — before anything else. Back inside, a presentation of individual practices and shared activities introduced the project in Mirns, accompanied by references to other rural project spaces and a selection of around thirty books laid out for browsing throughout the day.

The first assignment asked each student to describe their relationship to the ground they live on — and how, in an ideal world, they might change it. Sitting in the long grass behind the farmhouse, sheltered from the wind and in full sun, the texts were read aloud and discussed. The range of responses was striking: the hardness of city stones, a black rock landscape in Spain with valleys of green, a tight-knit community as soil. Conversation ran long, pushing lunch late.

Afterwards the students translated those stories into materials from the land — straw, willow branches, earth, water. In roughly two hours, sculptures and performances emerged across the whole farmstead. The simplicity of the materials lent itself well to quick impulses and direct action. Works were seen together during the closing drinks, walking the site as a group. Before the vans left, all artworks were cleared and laid into the hedgerows to decompose over time.