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                Périé | 
            Les témoins @Riorges (witnesses) 
              Ephemeral installationin a park, May June 2012Granite, bone glue, broth Land Art Festival, Riorges (Loire FR) This work is derived from another experimental work "La Chose". Here, the in-the-open installation consists of twenty
 (or more) identical elements, made of local stone cubes, on which are 
molded biological cubes sharing the same dimensions as the stone base 
(20x20x20cm). The biological material used here is composed of a mixture
 of bone glue (protein), water and broth. With time, the bone glue 
dries, so that the cube progressively deforms tending to a spherical 
shape. In the same time, it also interacts with the weather conditions 
and biotope (vegetation, insects, bacterias, mold...) depending on their
 immediate vicinity. All elements are directly lying on the ground. They
 are arranged in the natural environment in an intuitive manner 
depending on their relation to the surrounding landscape. The set looks 
like a dispersed population in his natural habitat, silent witnesses 
bearing the accumulated traces of what surrounds them. Far from the 
spectacular, the installation is intended to be discrete; what is sought
 here, is the transformation processes and their variations depending on
 space and environment. 
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