Public Artwork
Glimmer
Artwork creator(s):
Belcourt Salem, Jocelyne
Text author(s):
Belcourt Salem, Jocelyne
Installation year:
2000
Remarks on location:
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 11A, Toronto, Ontario, M6P 4H3
Description:
80 stainless steel plates, screwed onto the trees
Text of the artwork:
Sugar Maple
Red Maple
Yellow Birch
White Ash
White Pine
Red Oak
Balsam Fir
Eastern Hemlock
American Beech
Trembling Aspen
White Oak
Juniper
Black Spruce
Black Ash
Silver Maple
White Cedar
Tamarack
Speckled Alder
Striped Maple
Beaked Hazel
Service Berry
Trillium
Trout Lily
Maidenhair Fern
Christmas Fern
Baneberries
Virginia Sweet Fern
Staghorn Sumac
Sheep Sorrel
Saxifrage
Red Osier Dogwood
Bunch Berry
Yellow-throated Vireo
Cerulean Warbler
Black Crowned Night Heron
Eastern Fox Snake
Black Bear
Fisher
Raccoon
Red Fox
Skunk
Coyote
Weasel
White Tailed Deer
Pheasant
Gray Jay
Sharp Tailed Grouse
Bobwhite Quail
Black-backed Wood Pecker
Bay-breasted Warbler
Red Shouldered Hawk
Beaver
Map Turtle
Black Squirrel
Grey Fox
Chipmunk
Rabbit
Snapping Turtle
Duck
Muskrat
Bullfrogs
Moose
Common Raven
Lt.J.P.Catty,R.E., 1819
Explorer
Lt.Henry Briscoe, R.E., 1826
Explorer
Ensign Durnford, R.E., 1826
Surveyor
Alexander Shirreff, 1829
Surveyor
Lt. J.Carthew,R.N.
and
Lt. F.H Baddeley, R.E.
Surveyors, 1835
David Thompson, 1837
Owner
William Tinguey, 1870
Owner
Walter Tinguey, 1920
Owner
Salvation Army, 1950s
Loggers
Hatherley and Nephew
Owners
Lubovitch Community, 1989
Owners
Mentor College, 1997
Current Owner
Text theme:
Disappearing local species, flora and fauna, local history and identity
Artwork theme:
Disappearing local species, flora and fauna, local history and identity.
History:
The Tree Museum, Gravenhurst, since summer 2000 Note(s):
"The work is permanent - and intended to be as long as the trees remain. Proper arboreal practice was used to affix the plates -using only stainless steel hardware in contact with the trees… The plates are drilled in the 4 corners and screwed to the tree with stainless steel screws and spaced from the bark with stainless steel springs to allow for growth."
Source: Jocelyne Belcourt Salem. Conversation with the artist, March-April 2008
Artist's biography:
Jocelyn Belcourt Salem. Glimmer Document(s):
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