The Paleozoic Forest of Jewels
By
Arabel Lebrusan
2024
- Installation Art
- Sculpture
- Environment & Sustainability
- Social & Political
- Extractivism
- Natural Resources
- Ecofeminism
- Ecological Grief
- Coal
- Loss
- Mining
- Mourning
Dimensions
Variable size, 2m x 3m approx
Installation made with two rusty wheelbarrows, filled with traditional house coal. One features a lifesize golden rose and the other a lifesize small black canary bird with golden feet and a coal body, resting on a pile of rusting bits of metal picked up at an abandoned coal mine in South Wales.
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