Walking on a snow field with flower-shaped snowshoes. It’s a simple gesture, almost childlike. Suddenly, the earth blooms – regardless of seasons or climatic logic. 

The intervention aims to highlight the potential of what is already there. By using the snow as blank canvas, the temporary imprints turn the field into a flower meadow, creating a stage for life - inviting to reflect upon our environment from new perspectives: Open space. Accessible. Changeable. Shared. Ephemerality is also an important part of it: Mimicking real flowers, the traces shouldn’t last forever. Once the snow melts, the earth is left without a scar. What remains is the awareness that we cannot possess beauty – we can only encounter it.

Snow Flowers propose a literal analogy of the ecological footprint: It suggests that the change we want to see in the world starts with the way we move through it. It is all about how consciously we walk through life, and what we make out of the given circumstances. Will we leave a trail of flowers or a path of destruction? 

Giulio Gallana, 29.01.2026

Snow Flower intervention at Strandbad Tribschen, Lucerne.
Special thanks to Tobias Bieri and Vanessa Kluser. Drone images by Pino Casparis.

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