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Digital sculpture & animation
2023
Mangroves are usually a spectacular and abounding ecosystem, formed by trees growing between sea and soil on their stilt root. This environment, haven for biodiversity and source of life for human populations that life beside, is rapidly disappearing. Fortunately, nature is full of resources and today we see new kinds for organisms develop in the mangroves: colonies of microscopic animals, coral-like, filter the polluted water to extract salt and microplastics to build their skeletons. This fountain-like creatures periodically emit extremely pure water jets... directly into the polluted sea. What a waste.
-> Trees of Life
Digital sculpture
2020 - 2023
The series is inspired by visual representations of the evolution of life on Earth, especially phylogenetic trees. They are used here to explore the fragility of communities, friendships, families, that build, thrive and go extinct like entire species.