The site is currently in a moment of stasis, arrested by several centuries of cultivation. This pastoral, picturesque landscape is a landscape that has been tamed and beautified. Julia Watson, envisions a release of the sublime. In an effort to contemporize the experience of the site, we harken to the philosophical inquiry of Edmund Burke who's 'Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) refers to the exhilarating experience of untamed nature, rather than that of mankind’s ability to control the natural world. Rather than being a reminder that humanity is not all-powerful, we recognize that transfer of energy in nature, we afford a platform of exchange and awaken to nature’s profound ability to transform site and self. A single narrative of rewilding, awakening the site and the self to nature, which can be akin to a spiritual experience, will be afforded to both.

The rewilding is deployed through three operations; revisioning, revealing and regenerating. These operations transform the site, allowing the land to express itself by igniting and guiding ecological processes. Rewilding promotes an intrinsic nature of the site, it is an amplification of latent energies and a fostering of multiple exchanges that are unified by the contemplative movement of peoples through points of passive and active experience. Several pathways are curated to amplify diurnal, lunar and seasonal experiences.

The rewilding is designed to activate various aspects of time. These time scales require registration and documentation, with the accuracy and consistency of a scientific experiment. We take inspiration from the land art movement and artists such as Joseph Bueys who sought to understand what embodies energy and Agnes Denes who’s work explored cycles of nurturing and regeneration. Denes sought to link past, present and future through her interventions, as do we with the rewilding operations that incorporate the estate gardens, the pastoral stasis and energetic exchanges