UA ROSA EI UA ROSA EI UA ROSA
performances
creation of a conservatory
Between botany and art, a project in several steps.
"Una rosa es una rosa es una rosa" title borrowed from
G. Stein's poem "Sacred Emily"
created with the support of FRAAP - Traversées
and Es Sarnalhèrs (art - patrimony - ethnology)
Etapa 1 - Inventory
Inventory of all the rosebushes in Bausen, territory of investigation. In the gardens and patios I made a complete inventory of the hundred or so rose bushes (description, location and photo) in the village. The varieties, smells and colors variations from purple to pale pink, from white to dark red, a whole range of different roses and pinks. Wild roses or rosehips, old roses and many decorative rose bushes.
© C. Bouissou
Etapa 2 - Final Bouquet
A bouquet composed of all Bausen's roses
Etapa 3 - 100 roses in 1
From each rose a rose, from the 100 roses a jam
Jam of ALL the roses of the village
performance - sharing 100 roses in 1
Etapa 4 - Divide and multiplicate
Cuttings of roses, old roses lost in gardens, ornamental roses, municipal and private roses...
performance 
© C. Bouissou
Etapa 5 - Rosa rósa
The colours of roses. Series of 24 drawings
Colouring workshop: distinguish pale pink from coral or fushia...
© C. Bouissou
Etapa 6 – La rosaleda, development of a creative tool
Creation of a rose garden using cuttings from the village's rose bushes, with the emphasis on old varieties collected from vegetable gardens, which are often buried under the vegetation. The rose garden is a rose conservatory. Located in a ruin, it has helped to make the most of a wasteland in the village centre.
