Category:La forêt civilisée

English: "Inspired by the magnificent book, Des forêts et des hommes, 1880-1982, published by the Archives nationales du Québec and Publications du Québec, this geometrical forest, emerging from a bed of juniper bushes, consists of cubes, planks and vertical beams. Each object has a different surface that is supposed to represent the bark of different types of trees: cedar, maple, spruce, white pine and hemlock. The idea of a forest where the foliage is on the ground and the tree trunks are square suggests man’s control over the natural world. What’s more, when the work is viewed from above, it looks like a city with its buildings and skyscrapers. At night, the garden is lit up by lights concealed under the juniper bushes." https://artpublicmontreal.ca/en/oeuvre/la-foret-civilisee/