Green Dream @ Le Champ des Possibles
“Le vent me semble qu’il est libre pour s’en aller dans tous les directions. Il sent le vert. J’aime comment qu’on peut voir les chemins pris par les gens, par exemple o
ù l’herbe est aplatie. J’espère qu’il y aura des choses qui poussent ici dans l’avenir et des gens qui viendront pour aider.”
On November 1st Green Dream visited a wild green space in the Mile End in Montreal. This is the only unmanicured wild space in this area of the city, and it is nestled behind a few monstrous old industrial buildings.
The fate of this space has been at question. However in the last few years it has enjoyed a lot of cultural activity and community attention, especially after an artist Emily Rose Michaud started an earthwork installation, le Jardin Roerich. She used the Roerich symbol, which was created by the Russian artist and mystic Nichola Roerich, who proposed the red circle with three dots inside as an international symbol to mark museums, schools, and similar cultural landmarks to prevent destruction by aerial bombs. Emily with the help of the community has been maintaining the Roerich garden within this wild green space for the past two years.
le Jardin Roerich
With recent developments in the Mile End and the upcoming gentrification of the neighborhood the fate of this little space is uncertain. I with the help of two Green Dream volunteers visited the field to create a community map and capture people’s relationship to the space and their contemplations on it. Click on the blue dot to see each person’s reflection.
View Green Dream Map, Mile End Montreal in a larger map
photographs by Wayne Egers and Maia Iotzova
If you have any reflections you would like to add to this map you can e-mail them to greendreammedia@gmail.com
