The installation called “Atamatik” was made over 5 days in the mountains of Canada, near Montreal in
October 2019, during the annual Creations Sur Le Champs Land Art event.
Atamatik translates as ‘At the heart of a Tree’ in the Innu-aimun language of Quebec Canada.
The newly-emerged research of plant communication, cognition, Bioacoustics, and Gnosophysiology tests
the cognitive abilities of plants, including perception, learning processes, memory, and consciousness
and is re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience, and ethical standing. This holds
considerable implications for the way we perceive plants as it redefines the traditionally held
boundary between animals and plants and other organisms.
During the Land Art Festival, the public was invited to enter and experience a moment of peace and
communion with the forest.