Happy to share documentation from the project 'Zephyr' a new public sculpture piece that is now part of the Domaine Forget’s permanent collection. It is open to the public all year at the Domaine Forget in Saint Irénée, QC.
Zephyr speaks to maritime sensibilities and celebrates the maritime history and traditions of the Charlevoix region. The piece is made up of three separate objects- a single blade from a ship’s propeller, a guide roller from the deck of a ship and a fabricated light beacon. Though abstracted by their orientation and placement in the landscape, the three minimalist objects are immediately recognizable as maritime forms.
The propeller blade and the roller guide are ‘ready-made’ components sourced from the Camille-Marcoux a decommissioned ferry that was built in Sorel, Québec and provided the Matane – Godbout – Baie-Comeau link from 1974 to 2016. The ship is currently being broken at a maritime salvage yard in Port Colborne, Ontario. The light beacon is a 9-foot heavily painted steel column capped with a single-sided radar deflector, a marker flag and a flashing marine light. The light beacon references buoy and ship hardware design and acts as a semaphore communicating the existence of Zephyr the way a can, marker or hooter might mark a shoal or the entrance to a harbour.
I have always been interested in the idea that my work can exist on the edge or move freely between art and life. The ‘ready-made’ objects that make up Zephyr served a practical function in life and are very 'real' but in the Sculpture Garden at the Domaine Forget they now exist as art objects. The objects could however be put back in use on a ship at any time. It is important to me that the objects are not maquettes, facsimiles or copies but real artifacts.
The three objects are mounted in the landscape in a line mirroring the ship traffic of the Mighty! Saint Lawrence River (as my dad would say). Zephyr keeps literal and figurative pieces from the ships that pass Charlevoix and Saint-Irénée permanent and static in the landscape. Ships pass constantly on their way to the Ocean or into the Seaway but they are always in motion, never pausing—always in transit. Zephyr provides an opportunity for a small break in this pattern.
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