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|2020| PARÉIDOLIE

3/8” thick painted steel (bi-component paint).

Height : 400cm.

Projet d’intégration des arts à l’architecture (1%)

Alexander-Wolf school, Shannon (QC).

The colored artwork is a polyptych that is installed in the space between the school’s parking lot and the kids’ playground. Occupying five islets, we can see three tall birds, one round shape and a tree. The result is a dynamic longitudinal ensemble where we can see a rabbit drawn into the moon, which is surrounded by the three bird shapes and the tree. By its structure, the composition presents itself like a Haiku verse (tercet).

The lunar rabbit piece is a rabbit shape visible through a pareidolia on the moon’s surface (the pareidolia phenomenon consists, by example, in identifying a familiar shape into a mountain, a cloud, etc.). The story of a rabbit living on the moon exists in many cultures, notably in East Asia’s folklore. I have been shown the rabbit shape on the moon during an artist’s residency in Japan in 1993, which amazed me and led me to realize a permanent public artwork inside Hinode’s prefecture in Tokyo : Mangetsu Monogatari (or Conte de la pleine lune).

Photo: Martin Guimont