Leo Hafele

  • LH3009 What is the Mirror of a garden?

    By

    Leo Hafele

    What a garden tells us about the gardener?

    I want to look into topics/behaviors/aesthetics/meanings of things like Speed up growth with fertilizers, cutting plants to shape, letting the garden grow wild, combine non organic and organic objects, adjust the landscape to fit a certian look, what decoration elements get used, what food crops are preferred, how do people use a garden, what feeling do people miss if they donโ€˜t have a garden or maybe donโ€˜t miss because they never lived with oneโ€ฆ 

    wardiancase, Green guerillas, hironmus bosch, lawn/lawnmower

    Feedback: narrow down topic,
    Kolunale Sommerfrische, Quinta da regaleira, Waldbaden Shinrin-Yoku, Pexton Glasshouse, Barbwire oder Zaun allgemein, Ungeziefermittel

    Colonial summer resorts, similar to Tyrolean summer resorts, but in colonies such as Sapa in Vietnam
    Quinta da Regaleira: the park is orderly at the bottom and open at the top, with elaborately carved benches; the well shafts are not intended as wells but for ceremonial walks (connected to tunnels and grottoes) โ€“ in other words, lake fountains
    Waldbaden Shinrin-Yoku โ€“ Tyrolean common sense: the forest is good for you and restores peopleโ€™s health pysical and mental

    Pexton Glasshouse โ€“ the first large-scale greenhouse, designed for tropical plants, was heated underground using roaring coal stoves, featured a gravity-fed fountain, and had a transparent partition separating it from the outside,
    Emperior Fountain (Pexton) water pressure via elevation and gravity,


    Library Research:

    Kitchen garden and pleasure garden; water is fundamental; obtaining water and retaining it there,

    Egyptian gardens โ€“ luxury, and closely linked to life and death. The pharaohs wanted their tombs to be in gardens; rich gardens were carved into their tombstones; the tree goddess was a very important symbol.
    There were almost no ladders โ€“ people (slaves referred to as โ€˜monkeysโ€™) would climb the tree trunks, or real monkeys were tamed.


    Oriental gardens โ€“ palm gardens, shade, open to all, 1/3 city, 1/3 river, 1/3 garden; gardeners received 1/3 of the harvest; palm trees were pollinated by hand; the only place to find shade outside the garden; dates were harvested too early and then artificially scored to control their ripening process

    Books:

    Gartenkunst: Bilder und Texte von Gรคrten und Parks (Ursula Storch)
    Garten Eden: der Garten in der Kunst seit 1990
    Der Familien-Garten: phantasievolle Ideen, praktische Bauanleitungen, einfache Pflanzentips
    Der Garten von der Antike bis zum Mittelalter
    Gรคrten der Welt: Orte der Sehensucht und Inspiration
    Warum ein Apfel, Eva? die Bildsprache von Baum, Frucht Blume


    A locked garden, a sealed spring;
    The Romance of the Rose novel: โ€˜Here, the garden is a secret place beyond the orderly world of everyday life, where sexual fantasies can be acted out. The sacred/forbidden behind the hedge
    In the geometric Baroque gardens there were also mazes and dark grottoesโ€™

    Der Garten ist der letzte Luxus unserer Tage, denn er fordert das, was in unserer Gesellschaft am seltesten und kostbarsten geworden ist: Zeit, Zuwendung und Raum –

    Dieter Kienast
    A garden is the ultimate luxury of our times, for it demands what has become the rarest and most precious commodity in our society: time, attention and space

    It looks like that the meaning of Gardens changes a lot with where you are, they are very local. When i say Garden i mean something like
    back garden, yard, Hausgarten, residental garden, private gardens (not communal like Dutch hofje)

    Hard-edge painting movement

    Prisions
    Prisions are integral to society and to capitalist economic systemy by stabilizing and maintaining deviant populations at the same time that their lack of public visibility and public access relegates them to the margins of socity.

    Tools: Garden fork, watering can, ladder, pruning shears, hose,
    Animals: foxes, birds, hedgehogs, worms, bees, ladybugs, birdhouse
    Funactivity: Ball games, barbecuing, badminton, trampoline, pool, slackline, Table tennis, treehouse, swing/rope, fountain
    Gardencare: Mowing, Watering, planting, weeding,
    harvest

    How can a garden define itยดs borders?

    the garden opens the possibility for an alternative reality beyond a fence

    Feedback: narrow down, think personal, start doing things, go to gardens, add smth to angwandte garden

    – The One-Straw Revolution 1975 Japoan Philosopher Gardener
    – The Kindest Garden: A Practical Guide to Regenerative Gardening
    – https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb


    24hour Comic Session Sat13:00-Sun 14:00

    My Garden history (gardens that felt like an outddor extension of my home) and comparing them to where i live now.
    In the city is no space to have a garden

    Experiments: How could a garden be felt beyond its borders?

    Make clothing feel/look like you would have been in a garden, Bring the garden close to your body;

    Idea: move textiles or shirts/pants through flower fields, grass, earth, rose thorns, bushes with berrys, trees… to stain the fabric.

    indoor flower garden element

    wooden beam of a garden shed with cow bell fringes

    if you look at it, it makes you want to pull out the strings (one color segment)

    i came to the conclusion city and garden dont work, at least none that i would long for.

    elements of my dream garden written on paper with city garden sounds

    I was walking through Prater and Prater woods, Wednesday 16:00-17:45. grey weather 15*C
    Maximum duration without passing another person 1:03sec
    Maximum duration without crossing a dog 1:28sec
    Maximum distance without crossing a footpath 25m
    Maximum duration without hearing a dog, person, traffic 0sec

    experiment with recoil starter(Seilzugstarter) mechanism [abstract]

    when mowing the lawn you see the trace where you had been already

    negotiate the borders via drawing of a clay model of a watering can

    rust experiments with wood chips (oak and other), vinegar, loam, water. + 1 image planting an Apple Tree in 1.District Vienna

    gemeinschaftliches heuen, hackschnitzelgruben hรผpfen

    Feedback: what kind of feedback do i want?
    selma did a project with a “original” forest in austria,
    the forests in tirol are also not natural,
    stonegardens


    read Books

    The One Straw Revolution
    Mein Garten(buch) -Jamaica Kincaid
    Die gegenstandslose Welt (Kasimi Malewitsch)
    Books about Bruce Nauman

    SB Mowing Youtube channel – mows abdoned gardens while filming about 600k Views in 10 days, videos 1-2mio views

    Experiements with growing microgreen extrusions

    maybe use bread as substrate (so much thrown out)

    Can we construct rewilding?

    How would a rewilded face look like?

    What does a rewilded appartment feel like?

    What would a rewilded (post-colonial) wardrobe look like?

  • Process

    By

    Leo Hafele

    Week 3

    Story A – the invention of believe system that builds a moral prision

    extracting things, using things, changing things, destroy and build,

    Story includes poisoned food, maybe it is maybe itยดs not

    example: attached plastic bottle caps are needed because of environment, only use material with “moral good” sticker,
    xxx invades yyy, we need to help yyy and also fight xxx because xxx is bad

    =very distant story

    Story B – time consciousness

    story about altering time perception

    examples: read book, mountain hike with friend, waiting room, sex, create smth, watch smth = distant story

    Story C – improvise

    something, let my subconsiusness do the work = personal story

    People start to breed crazy food crops to have a special ingridient for the next Story Performance Dinner, some start creating tableware and other appliances to up the Story game.

    Algebraic Story Settings

    A=Creator, B= Watcher, C=Curator
    1 Person Story Dinner:
    A has cool story and listens to it
    A has no story -> looks for story or ends their story (creator becomes watcher/curator)

    B finds no Story to listen -> becomes Creator or Curator or doesn’t value Story Dinners anymore (maybe dies, because lack of values)

    C has no Story to listen -> tries to create an ensemble of creators and watchers -> if fail, becomes B with no story

    2 Person Story Dinner:

    AA
    A has cool story B not interested to listen
    A has bad Story B wants to listen
    A has no Story B wants to experience a Story ( Creator gets watcher – Watcher gets creator
    A has story but C not interested -> A looks for B

    B wants Story A creates Story -> C looses importance
    B want no Story A creates Story -> 1 Person A and 1 Person B
    BB

    B and C -> maybe next time Mutliperson

    CC

    Multiperson Story Dinner:
    A create cool Story B C

    AAB

    AAC

    ABB

    ACC

    BBC

    BCC

    Week 2

    Which stories do we choose to listen to?

    What/Why/How

    (old trash- Everything digital lost its value, as most is AI created and itยดs hard to f

    Everything digital is spammed with AI, there is no trust in any digital transmitted information anymore. When you chat with someone youยดre not sure if AI is responding or the Person. When you call someone you donยดt know if youยดre talking to a voice clone. When you watch videos you donยดt know if they are real or generated. Digital interaction lost their value. People become conscious about their closer surroundings and they care about it.)

    People start organizing communal Storytelling Performance Dinners where they share things they care about by adding it to the storyline .

    The Story is told in an abstract surreal way, through moving objects, arranged at the dinner table. No words, universal understandable. Eatable and non eatable ones, poisoned or umami 2000 super tastes.

    Bier anstoรŸen damit gift in alle schwappt; kรถnig hat vorkoster, falls essen vergiftet

    Set Design Tryouts

    experiments for possible ways to create Setdesign and props

    Mold creation for Papier-mรขchรฉ object

    Set Design with Papier-Mรขchรฉ

    Experiments using Toothpicks to create props

    Week 1

    Develop Community

    How is community life organised?

    everyone can decide on his own what they want to do with their time, groups form with people who spent time similarly, If one decides spending time differently they end up in the differently time spender group.
    Connecting within a time spender community and others is done via communal Storytelling Performance Dinners.

    Who do people become? What do they fight for?

    People become either passive watchers or creators or curators (can also be Algorythm).
    They fight for creation of nice stories and tasty cooking skill.

    Do activities that were considered marginal, for example, hobbies, take on new value, perhaps becoming central?

    Stay the same, if a hobby is currently just a side thing it will also be side thing then. If it had more value it wouldnยดt be considered marginal

    What does competition and cooperation look like?

    people compete through Storytelling Performances. 
    In their communitys they try to create the best timeless Abstract Story Performance.

    Do social status or hierarchy persist? How?

    High story skill status in one group might be low story skill status in a other one.
    During the Performance there is no real hierarchy because all members of a Storytelling Performance will leave when they donยดt like the story or food tastes bad.
    Watchers might propose story changes during the performance, Creators might change to Watchers for the rest of the Performance, Curators might choose participants that donยดt fit to create a good story this time.
    There are private, secrete, closed Story performances (these eventualy get bored as they lack new input), but also open diversified ones. Still each Story Performances dinner can never be experienced twice or repeated as the food is eaten and the Participants change.
    However there is life expectancy risk as Watchers will lack purpose if creators continuously tell Stories they donยดt want to listen, or curators fail to bring up fitting Story Dinners.
    This marks the beginning of a new value system in the community


    Week 0

    if money is gone, there is a loss of interaction of exchanging trust, this trust gap needs to be filled.

    modern still live instead of fruit bowls and meat, true fruits innocent smoothie und veggie nuggets

    how can trust be fostered through ceremonies?

  • AI Blender Workshop Matthew

    By

    Leo Hafele

    Inspiration

    @canekzapatap (IG, 2025)

    Creation of 3D Assets

    Animating AI Generated 3D Model from Image

    Animating Blender Render with custom shader of AI Generated 3D Model

    Goal: let AI generate fog above the candle, that looks like a barking dog

    Arrangement of multiple AI generated 3D Models with custom Shader in Blender

    Test for alternative start/end Animation by AI Wan2.2 and trying to keep shader astethics

    realted to Semester Project – Storytelling through Object Arrangements

    made with google veo3 by use of rendered still frames from previous test