Waste Plants

La Fée Crochette started this work of transforming domestic waste into plants in 2004, for her exhibition at St-Priest Castle. In her recycling lab, where all experiments are allowed, she invited visitors to discover the first plant species born from seeds thrown out over-abundantly by our society. Inspired by these plants and guided by La Fée, visitors could participate in the research and make hatch. The empty flower beds were filled and had flowered with the ideas of all by the end of the exhibition.

Here 9 seeds of waste which you can see flowering by flying over them :

Since then, she continues her gardening by multiplying the varieties. This approach has practically become a ritual, a way of taming a new material by first making it hatch. Her recent approach of glass thanks to a collaboration with manufacturer O-I enabled her to add in her collection the glass flowers. Her work with the Lamazière Print waste inspired her first giant flowers, first of a series she continued for the Fleurs Recycleuses (Recycling Flowers) of the Art Gens association.

What she has in her mind today is the realization of a life-size forest which would materialize in volume and space the consumption of a sample of population through its waste. For this ambitious project she is looking for a city and especially inhabitants who would take part in this performance with her : to carry out an artistic inventory on household consumption.

She imagines this forest, amusing at first, then frightening. It must raise questions : this forest is the illustration of the garden we could inherit if no real solution to disposable packaging is found. Fortunately, this garden remains optimistic by showing us the creative capacities we possess, with which we can play to come up with alternatives and to advantageously question our current operating mode.