Public Artwork

La ligne de front : sentier aux valeurs divergentes

Zoe Lambert, La ligne de front : sentier aux valeurs divergentes, 1996
Location:
Nid de l’Oiseau du Tonnerre, Henderson Lake, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Alternate title: 
The Front Line: Trail of Divergent Values
Artwork creator(s): 
Lambert, Zoe
Text author(s): 
Lambert, Zoe
Installation year: 
1996
Remarks on location: 
Lakeside
Description: 

Inscription of words in the bark of trees

Text of the artwork: 

(possibly incomplete text)


mother
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feel
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t’sitsikink
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respect
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care
---
give
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taking

Text theme: 
Evocation contrary to the violence of tree cutting
Artwork theme: 
Logging on sacred land
Note(s): 

• By loggers: notches painted in fluorescent orange and plastic ribbons showing the future path and the limits of the logging trail

• By Zoe Lambert: words written in black ink on the loggers' notches

Document(s): 

Forêt-frontière. Une action art/nature

Fabb, Jeane, Lorraine Gilbert, Daniel Poulin (2001).  Forêt-frontière. Une action art/nature. L’Annonciation : Boréal Art/Nature, p. 69