Interactive art on display at Bradford West Gwillimbury Library

A new interactive art display at Bradford West Gwillimbury Library

A new interactive art display has been unveiled at the Bradford West Gwillimbury library.

An immersive art project invites you to walk through the changes happening to the land, ‘we are forest’ - is an exploration of our place in the world.

It includes - made from recycled paper - hand-cut, native tree leaf shapes and painted with natural dyes and pigments.

Artist Jill Price said the land and our bodies are similar.

“Whatever we do to the land or do to our forests, we are, in fact, doing to ourselves the human bodies. So that’s what this piece is trying to make material connections between the leaves of books and the leaves of the trees, as well as there’s a wood writing desk,” said Price. “There’s so much of our human lives are based on forests or depending on forests and so just drawing attention to the importance of forests and why it’s important to look after them.”

If you want to make your mark - you can add to the piece by writing a poem or a letter to the trees on seed paper - specially created by the artist for this display.