Moth Garden

2021-Ongoing

In collaboration with Lisa Hirmer
 

Moth Garden is an artist-made garden for moths and other nocturnal pollinators. In a world where attention, care and conservation efforts have a bias towards creatures who align with human perception—the big, the beautiful, the colourful—Moth Garden is a project that wonders how we can relate to beings that are harder for our bodies to perceive. It is a poetic gesture that attends to the tiny and the barely visible around us.

Moth Garden invites visitors to spend time in the dark with nocturnal beings and hopes to offer embodied, sensory experiences at the edge of one’s capacity for perception: perhaps the flicker of moonlight off an iridescent wing, a fluttering felt on the skin, or a rhythmic thrum in the eardrum as a moth flies by.

More info at: mothgarden.ca

Moth Garden was created with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Eramosa Herbals, Pollination Guelph, CEDaR Lab, and the Culture and Animals Foundation.

Photos: Christina Kingsbury