Regeneration

A visitor enters a large exhibition room lit by natural light. He immediately sees a vast mass of organic appearance. It seems to be suspended in the center of the space. A discreet soundtrack occupies the space and gives him the impression of being in a clearing at ground level. He circulates around the mass which resembles an earthy tangle of roots and organic membranes that evoke underground mushrooms. He has the impression that the mass breathes. He understands that it pulses in an arrhythmic way. Discreet lights go through its roots evoking the water and the sap which irrigates the mass in which the visitor has just entered, attracted by the circulation of the light. He has gone underground through a gap that he could not perceive from afar. He is in the work and feels its breath. He feels the wind that the work blows towards him. He comes out of it intrigued, lulled by a feeling of a calm slowness, but he has perceived a certain force, a power at work. The whole is halfway between a laboratory and a sacred space. The breath, the light and all the movements of the interlacing are animated by plant and climatic data captured from an experimental site located on the grounds of the botanical garden. This plot is one of seven stations on the Botanical Garden's Phytotechnology Trail, which opens in 2019. This work is a poetic introduction to the didactic path.