Molecules of the Sublime is an ode to Anticosti Island, using the style of a travel journal. Known as Cemetery of the Gulf, for its 400 shipwrecks, as well as the Pearl of St Lawrence for its natural beauty, the expansive uninhabited ecosystem is now threatened by fracking, and overwhelmed with introduced white-tailed deer.
In the 1920’s, a French chocolatier brought in twenty hoofed fellows from continental Canada. In less than a hundred years, the population has swelled to a hundred fifty thousand. Devoid of natural predators, they have decimated the island’s deciduous forest - leaving every view point framed solely by pine trees - and driven black bears to local extinction.
The installation featured an installation of seventy-one pine framed watercolours (from pigments harvested on location), two multilayered silk hangings and and a rusty iron railing from the shipwreck Wilcox.
In the 1920’s, a French chocolatier brought in twenty hoofed fellows from continental Canada. In less than a hundred years, the population has swelled to a hundred fifty thousand. Devoid of natural predators, they have decimated the island’s deciduous forest - leaving every view point framed solely by pine trees - and driven black bears to local extinction.
The installation featured an installation of seventy-one pine framed watercolours (from pigments harvested on location), two multilayered silk hangings and and a rusty iron railing from the shipwreck Wilcox.
