Since 1975, Linda Covit has created numerous art interventions presented in Canada and abroad. Her artworks address issues of nature, the environment, and peace. Water Garden, integrated with the Water Centre building in Calgary, and Shangri La Stripe Room, at the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center in Orange, Texas, are among her most recent creations.
Artwork description
Composed of several stainless steel elements, this installation, a tribute to the life and work of Berthe Louard, conveys the theme of cooperation. Designs of the details of food plants (oats, wheat, barley, buckwheat, hay clover, corn, and millet) have been cut out of eight steel plaques. The designs are a reference to the foodstuffs available at the La Familiale cooperative and in the gardens of the Saint-Sulpice estate. In this way, the artist, Linda Covit, highlighted the contribution of the Montréal food cooperative that Louard founded. Covit selected the plants from a list of edible products grown and sold on the island of Montréal in 1936. The installation expresses the very fundaments of generosity and cooperation that guided Louard’s life and work. The steel plaques are set out between a flowerbed and a group of trees in the park that bears the name of this remarkable woman.