This collective work takes the form of a multimedia installation depicting a small village lost in the night, a wind-tossed canoe, a vast, star-studded sky, and Yukoners diving into a tale about a flying canoe from another a time long ago.

This canoe, built in the Maritimes, had spent thirty years lying abandoned in an oxbow lake on the M’Clintock River in the Yukon. As she slumbered, this sleeping boat developed a new root system. She was transformed by the environment that had become her home.

The artists saw in the canoe a curious similarity with their own existences, punctuated with departures and arrivals, intermittent frenzy and stillness, change.

The work thus considers what we carry with us in our old roots from the past: traditions, emotions, a language, a way of being… And what we become with those brand new roots that we continue to put down throughout our lives.

Maya’s art will be included in Marie Helen’s installation, as her Israeli heritage is portrayed in traditions and colour.