L’éveil [The Awakening]

Materials :
Bronze, copper, and light
Dimensions :
100 (h) x 100 (l) x 300 (d) cm
Medium :
Sculpture

Context :
Public artwork set up at the Terre des jeunes elementary school in Saint-Eustache.

The sculptural installation titled L’éveil (The Awakening) reveals that nature is mathematical and that many phenomena are linked to it, such as the arrangement of the seeds of a sunflower, the elegant spiral drawn by the shell of certain molluscs, the rolling of the wave, the welcoming embrace of the Milky Way. The spiral, frequently seen in the plant and animal kingdom, evokes optimism, development, cyclical continuity, progress, and the evolution of a force. At the end of the spiral, an owl, a symbol of wisdom and knowledge, lights up and watches over the display of this mounting evolution.