Carbon Circle in the Engadin

Carbon Circle is an ephemeral, site-responsive land artwork by Caroline Christie-Coxon, created in the Engadin, Switzerland, in January 2026. The work forms part of an evolving constellation of site-responsive projects unfolding across the alpine landscape, exploring seasonality, elemental processes, and cycles of return.

Drawn with horticultural charcoal on a snow-covered field, Carbon Circle gradually disappears beneath snowfall. As spring arrives, melting snow may partially reveal or reconfigure the form before the charcoal settles harmlessly into the soil, returning nutrients to the land. Carbon functions here as both material and metaphor — reflecting on emissions, sequestration, and ecological cycles.

Guided by Christie-Coxon’s long-standing conceptual frameworks Circle Culture, the work rejects permanence and ownership in favour of restraint, attentiveness, and ecological humility. The Engadin’s alpine conditions — snow, silence, altitude, and seasonal extremity — act as collaborators, shaping the work’s visibility and duration.

Carbon Circle proposes art as a form of listening: a quiet, ritual gesture that leaves no physical trace, yet invites reflection on humanity’s entanglement with natural systems.

Carbon Circle in the Engadin

Selected Images

Silvaplana, Switzerland

Performance-Based Photograph

Giclée on archival fine art paper

120 x 165 cm each

Edition of 2 + 1 AP

POA