SHELLEY MILLER- Les Boîtes vivantes

Les Boîtes vivantes © Shelley Miller 2022, 2 murals each 1.5m x 3.55m, Byzantine smalti glass, hand glazed ceramics, sculpted clay and image transfers on ceramic tile, Angrignon Metro Station platforms, Montreal QC

Commissioned by the Société de transports de Montréal

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This photographic montage, akin to the “cabinets of curiosities” of another time, recalls the winter quarters of Parc Angrignon, which for a long time welcomed during the cold season the animals of the Jardin des merveilles (Garden of Wonders), located in Parc La Fontaine. Some images show the forest that gave way to the park in the mid-1950s.

The two skull shapes on the murals refer to the lion and giraffe enclosures planned for the Parc Angrignon zoo, a project that was never carried out.

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