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September 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
© Matthieu Raffard
French artist Mathilde Roussel doesn’t always work with the most predictable of media. She uses paper, fabric, rubber, and graphite … as well as pollen, sap, milk, dew, and wheat grass. When exploring the cycles that transform organic matter, the Paris-based artist creates ephemeral works of art that also employ time as a medium – decay is as important to the work as it is inherent.
While many of us are struggling with where lawns should fit into the big picture (as in, maybe they shouldn’t), in Lives of Grass, Roussel uses grass to make a statement about food.
In the installations, human form armatures are seeded with wheat grass in a nod to Egyptian Mythology and Osiris, the God of renewal, says the artist. Osiris is also the personification of the fertile land and the natural cycles: death and rebirth, dryness and fertility. Roussel says of the work:
The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. These anthropomorphic and organic sculptures made of soil and wheat grass seeds strive to show that food, it’s origin, it’s transport, has an impact on us beyond it’s taste. The power inside it affects every organ of our body. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat might make us more sensitive to food cycles in the world – of abundance, of famine – and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.
© Matthieu Raffard
© Matthieu Raffard
© Matthieu Raffard
© Matthieu Raffard
Lives of Grass has been exhibited at: Invisible Dog Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the French Institute Alliance Française FGH Theater Hall, NY; Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City at The Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Cheekwood Botanical Garden Museum of Art, Nashville, TN.
Via Laughing Squid
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