Janet McEwan

Project Proposal

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question”.

E.E. Cummings.

Project Outline:

Working title : “Can I? May I? Should I?’

Visitors to the Ardo House garden during the NEOS week will be invited to participate in a treasure hunt, which is part game, part experiment..

No written clues or map will be provided, other than an indication of an area of the garden wherein two small treasure troves have been buried.
Instead, a range of dowsing equipment, information and instructions will be available, and visitors invited to experiment with these to try to locate the buried items. Alongside the tools , images of the buried items will be displayed.

People will also welcome to make a random intuitive guess, without the use of the tools.
If the weather is bad, participants can also hopefully stay undercover (somewhere to be identified) and try using a map and pendulum method to divine the buried items.

Participants will be asked to mark the spot the spot where they think the treasure is buried with a coloured and numbered flag, which I will provide, and to leave their contact details.
At the end of the week the winner of the treasure will be the persons nearest the spots. They will be contacted and an arrangement made re treasure collection. Should more than one person choose the same place the prize will be divided.

I hope to be present on several days to give support./advise and document.

Note : The items will, be buried in the garden several weeks before the event.

J McEwan 2010

    THE ARTIST'S DECISION WILL BE FINAL!