Mercurart under the snow

Aerial shots, Thursday, March 1st.


Mercurart under the snow ....

Gallery Mercurart wish you a happy 2018 !

Gallery Mercurart wish you a happy 2018 !

In 2018, we wish you good health and harmonious social relations

In 2018, we wish that our commitment in and for Culture, contribute the combat against the  withdrawal and the practice of power relations.

In 2018, we hope to see you or see you again at the Mercurart garden and gallery !

Some photographs taken this winter in the garden : mixture of past achievements and current creations…:

Volcanic sky @Mercurart

When you live in a country with sleeping volcanoes and the 14th of september, at the end of the morning, you get out of the office and find a sky looking like this... is it possible to don't have a moment of fear? ...

 

Still a surprising sky on this second picture but more reassuring !

Red-legged partridge @ Mercurart

Perdrix @ Mercurart

This morning, at dawn, one of the three red-legged partridges, which we often cross in the Mercurart garden, was placed on the mantelpiece and seems to look out for the two others by a unusual sound caused its loneliness... Where are they?

Roses @ Mercurart

More than 90 % of the roses in the Mercurart garden are remontant (continuous flowering).
Which, despite the hot, dry conditions, gives beautiful blooming all summer.

St Cécilia the 6th of July 2017.                     Bouquet parfait the 6th of July 2017.

Great river Abitulon @ Mercurart

We took this photo in the Mercurart garden,
A bushy plant of the Malvaceae family, originate from Brazil. Abutilon mégapotamicum, the name of the species ( Méga – Great Potamicum – River), refers to the Amazon River.

The “great river” Abitulon can grow until 2 meters tall and spread as wide.

This plant is also known as "The Chinese Lantern Plant", we understand why, by seeing the flowers…

A clever spider @The Mercurart Garden

We met an artist spider, already presented in the blog of July 5, 2017.

But we just found out that its also a forger.

"Cyclosa conica" has as characteristic of weaving a vertical strip more dense in the middle of his painting, a "stabilimentum", she adorns remains of plants and prey.

"In the middle of this line structure, the spider leaves an opening, where it will settle down. Then it also closes this strip of waste and shrink among the debris in the eyes of some potential predators. The spider take part of the rare species that transform their environment so that they can be camouflaged. "For most animals, the camouflage works in reverse: they are the ones who adapt themselves to the environment".

Source RTBF info.

Another reason to name the large sculptures of Séverin, “Les Témoins” (The Witnesses) lays in the fact that one of the two is positioned in the right direction to observe what has just been described.

Spider laying eggs on Sculpture "Le témoin bleu" (the blue witness) @ The Mercurart Garden

 The Spider is Oviparous, which means it lays eggs, the eggs are protected by spider silk ( yellow on the photo).

A small spider has installed itself on the back of one of the sculptures of Séverin Millet inaugurated in June.