Eight thousand steel rods, six hundred metres of covered path drawn in a clean wooded area

This path was studied with method and naturalness. The woodland soil was removed and heaped. It will be screened and used later on for gardening and landscaping. An ecological pond was dug.

 

The passage consists of 6 m long by 1 cm diameter reinforced steel rods. A total of eight thousand rods are planted on either side of the path and connected by wires. The structure is solidified with other rods secured together horizontally.

 
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The vaulted structure is anchored in the ground according to the determined plan on a distance of 600 meters. Seventeen openings lead to sculptural installations in the form of arbours.

 
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The seventeen sculptural installations are constructed with the same steel rods. Their configuration adopts the contours of certain details of my pictorial and sculptural works.

 
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The steel rods are planted vertically, spaced 20 cm apart along the contour line. Some of them are tied in a "steel" sheaf.

 
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This passage is my passage. It is marked by nature, forest, water, metal, sounds and smells.  It is marked by the rhythm of the seasons: the green of summer, the red and orange of autumn, snow and ice and the awakening of spring.

 

The Passage is witness to the passing of time. Vegetation becomes dense, trees grow and the work rusts.

 

 

In Bourget, there was the man who planted trees.

Today, there is the man who plants steel rods.

- Tribute to Ferdinand Larose