Moving Corridors
When entering the meadow we identified the key elements: the treeline growing into meadows, Alpine Apollos, stonecrop plants and other prefered food sources of the butterflies.
The group then added plant specimen to the backpacks, creating a mini-meadow for them to transport, and trek through the forest to another nearby meadow. The butterflies, attracted by the backpack-meadows, should follow them through trees to other meadows where they can find new mates.
Like this, the group experienced the mountain ecosystem from the butterfly perspective, assimilating at first to the environment and approaching butterfiles, then experimentating with different formations to connect one meadow to another: clustered packs, spread out, as meadow islands or “stepping stones”.