It's really just a love story

This monograph chronicles the innovative human-nature co-creation project spanning three years realized by Angela Marsh and varied collaborators. Visual art, poetry, botany, science and new multi-species relationships all came together on the same territory, leaving traces of their benefits on the landscape and its visitors. The starting point for the original installation was the deliberate decision not to let a section of lawn on the plains of Abraham grow, so that the wild flora and the biodiversity it brings could revive the grass-dominated, manicured park. Marsh developed the project to incorporate artistic and ecological interventions as care practices. Each year, a different poet was invited into the collaboration (Marilyne Busque-Dubois in 2021, Andrée Levesque Sioui in 2022 and Isabelle Duval in 2023), with the artist integrating their words into the wild garden, alongside up-cycled wrought iron structures and the seeding of wild and native species of plants. The public was able to explore this place of multiple cohabitations with a different eye. The monograph gives an account of the scope of the research through a selection of images, texts and scientific data, articulating the different aspects of this new socio-environmental paradigm.