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Reliquiae mirabilis 
Interactive sculpture, digital art and augmented drawings.

The trees breathe, transpire... Their saps stream down... irrigating their bodies with nutrients necessary for their protection systems.
The sap turns into resin and then heals the tree when it is injured This plant exudate is a mucus necessary for the protection and life of the tree.
It is fascinating to understand that trees have the ability to transport sap and water from the ground to vertiginous heights. They use a mechanism that results only from the transpiration of the leaves via photosynthesis by the contribution of energy from the sun.

The fluids of the bodies are essential for life, for growth. The sap irrigates the plants. The blood irrigates our bodies. Liquids nourish souls and existence. The milk that flows from the breasts of women, the nourishing water of mother earth, the elixir of life, feelings, tears, love before death. When sap and blood flow out of the bodies, suffering oozes, extricates itself from being, life evaporates slowly and inexorably.

This artwork evokes relationships to life and wounds. 
Its darkness have the color of the ebony but like the phoenix, it is reborn from the ashes like a burned forest ready for renewal.

This interactive sculpture is made from branches of dead trees taken from the forest. The sculpted tree reconstituted comes back to life symbolically. An interactive device (computer + microcontroller + sensors + water pump) causes an olfactory liquid to flow along it outer bark and entrails, from it summit to its roots in the receptacle. The liquid oozes, pearls, trickles down meticulously, slowly or quickly depending on the approach of the audiences.
A delicate carnal and floral fragrance escapes delicately.