The installation Les herbes de passage (Hibou, chouette et souris) is part of a series of installations that poetically suggest the phenomenon of zoochory. Here, two owls at rest are surrounded by a multitude of little mice whose tails are transformed into ornamental vegetation. Their “foliage” tails suggest that, not only do the mice help to the spread of seeds of various plant species, but the seeds are sprouting on the mice, as well, and helping to camouflage them as much as the mice modify the landscape. At the foot of the mural, on some plastic containers cast in porcelain, evoking a studio “landscape”, are interlacings of porcelain flowers, recalling the motifs fixed on the wall.
Les herbes de passage (Hibou, chouette et souris), 2020, Porcelain, nichrome wire, pins, 61 x 64 x 12 inches
Photo credit : Étienne Dionne