Les enracinées
Our collective "les enracinées" (the rooted) was formed around the creation of the "Shroud for a vital death", and continues with the aim of creating more works using hair and natural textiles.
This first shroud is a peaceful and poetic protest, an embodied plea to be able to move from our human form to a plant form, to nourish the earth that has nurtured us. We intertwine our own human hair fibers with the fibers of the hemp plant, in order to create a plant-human assemblage.
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Burial in the ground, at a shallow depth, and in a shroud is one of the most respectful burial methods for the living. When the excavated earth is replaced with plant matter, such as wood chips, to accommodate the body, this is called an improved natural burial. This is what we would like to see emerge in France.
In France, this burial method is impossible because coffins are mandatory, burial is in a cemetery, and a minimum depth of 1.5 meters is imposed. Oxygen is essential to transform the body into humus, which these conditions make impossible. We want cemeteries full of life, forest cemeteries.
To connect our desire for burial with the living, we chose to embroider a medical illustration, drawn by pioneering neuroscientist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, interwoven with an illustration of oak roots from Erwin Lichtenegger's root atlas. This piece symbolizes the intimacy and kinship that forms with trees, these peaceful creatures.