Public Artwork

Glimmer

Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Glimmer, 2000
Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Glimmer, 2000
Location:
The Tree Museum, Ryde Lake Road , Gravenhurst, ON, Canada
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

Document(s): 

Jocelyn Belcourt Salem. Glimmer

Tree_Museum (2008).  Jocelyn Belcourt Salem. Glimmer. <http://www.thetreemuseum.ca/> : Tree Museum

The Tree Museum 2000. Site specific installations 24 October to October 30, 2000

al. Lightman E. J. (2000).  The Tree Museum 2000. Site specific installations 24 October to October 30, 2000. Gravenhurst : The Tree Museum