The installation Les herbes de passage (Écureuils) is part of a series of installations that poetically suggest the phenomenon of zoochory. Here, squirrels are busy gathering some food in a porcelain landscape that evokes a forest. While doing this, a squirrel gathers in its fur what could be seeds from different plants. By carrying those seeds, the squirrels is unconsciously contributing to the transformation of the landscape during its daily routine. At the foot of the mural, arrangements of plastic and cardboard containers cast in porcelain, evoking a studio landscape, are combined with oversized porcelain acorns, emphasizing the transformation of the landscape through the phenomenon of zoochory.
Les herbes de passage (Écureuils), 2020, Porcelain, glaze, nichrome wire, pins, 67 x 96 x 12 inches
Photo credit : Étienne Dionne