“Weaving Provencher’s Story” by Tree Tree Tes

"Weaving Provencher's Story" by Tree Tree Tes

July 15 - October 15, 2025

Boîte Lumineuse / Light Box - Sculpture Garden

For this project, I will create a digital collage that combines photography, sketching, and mixed-media elements to form a reimagined landscape of Provencher Boulevard. As a newcomer immigrant woman artist and a person of color, I see this space through a unique lens, one shaped by personal experience, cultural perspective, and a sense of both belonging and transformation.

The artwork will start with photographic documentation of Provencher Boulevard, capturing its architecture, streets, and everyday life. I will also photograph some of the people who inhabit or pass through this space: residents, workers, visitors, representing the diverse community that interacts with this historic boulevard. These images will then be layered with hand-drawn sketches and abstract elements, creating a fusion of real and imagined perspectives. The final composition will blend textures, perspectives, and mediums, symbolizing the evolving relationship between space and identity.

This collage-based landscape will highlight the intersection of past and present, permanence and change. It will reflect not just the physical characteristics of Provencher Boulevard but also its emotional and cultural significance. The work will engage with themes of migration, adaptation, and visibility, emphasizing how the cityscape is shaped by those who move through it. Displayed in the Boîte Lumineuse, this piece will interact directly with the public, offering a layered, poetic vision of a place seen through the eyes of someone who is both an observer and a participant in its ongoing narrative.