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© Flor 2026


Cecropia is an entangled, curious, caring, and collaborative world.
[Roots]
My name is Flor, and Cecropia (like the moth Hyalophora cecropia) is my enmeshed, curious project. I am a multidisciplinary artist, community herbalist, ecologist, and kitchen witch from the Laurentides region of Québec, now gardening in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang, Montréal. Clustering everything between the stellar and the soil, my practice nests fibre crafts, holistic medicine, and community ecology through biomaterial sculptures and site-responsive installations. Rooted in the medicinal gardens I tend, crafts passed down through my family’s hands, plant and insect morphologies, and esoteric praxis, my work conjures through experiments in composting, mutation, relational sensing, and hybrid becoming.

Alongside my studio practice in Chabanel, I facilitate ecology-based programs and collaborate with youth and community allies, translating affective plant and fungal ecologies through collective making, sensory activation, and material alchemy. Attuned to both philosophy nodes, microbiology, and mysticism, I am completing my final year in Biology, Visual Arts and Community Art Education at Concordia University, while studying Ecological Restoration at the University of Victoria. 

Through the publication of pedagogical zines on community care, mutual aid, and compost, and through exhibitions such as Loulou pour toujours (2025), Earth Tones: Magic Items (2024), as well as public and in-situ projects including La Falaise, Prairie Louvain, and Parc du Boisé Saint-Sulpice, my lore cultivates spaces where human and more-than-human worlds meet, entangle, and co-digest. In 2026, I am sprouting works for the Bootlegger Magazine 3.5 Edition and exhibition at la SAT, an upcoming Earth Tones exhibition, and the In Terre Art In Situ Residency.



[Compost Spells]
Fermenting in the liminal thresholds between soil, dream, and speculative worlds, I cultivate a cobweb practice rooted in the unruly ecologies of decay and life. My sculptures emerge as strange hybrid living organisms—breathing exoskeletons and feral biomaterial bodies. They weave plant morphologies with arthropod ecologies and inhabit porous realms, circulating care across scales: microbial, vegetal, human, planetary.

Through sympoietic and ritual-based practices, I collaborate with intimate surroundings to distill micro, heart-searching worlds, as composting and garden conjuring operate as dynamic methods of community imagining. I follow a slow ecological pace, listening deeply to seasonal rhythms, and sculpt with transformed organic matter, native seeds, medicinal dyes, and biomaterials, later returning them to the habitats that shaped them. My sculptural fabulations unfold as spells of reciprocity, incantations, and offerings toward soft tenderness. Through constant flux, my processes generate swampy ecological ontologies, blurring the boundaries between folk and scientific inquiry, reclaiming tangible potion-making, fermentation, and herbal experimentation as rigorous, relational forms of knowledge. 

Rooted in ecofeminist theory, ethnobotany, community and queer ecologies, folk and biodynamic gardening methods, craft, and entomology, I collaborate with fleshy materiality, through biocomposites such as fermented tea scraps, invasive plant pulp and biotextiles to sculpt living anatomies that twine cellular systems of vascular plants, galls, and deformities. I reveal abnormal proliferations, allelopathic reactions, and viscous physiologies, forming an entropic portal of unexpectedness.

I am currently developing odd sculptural systems that actively operate within the garden—for collection, nourishment, cultivation, and decomposition—such as rainwater harvesting. I am particularly interested in how these organisms wield forms of magic, responding to natural temporalities and making-with microbial activity. In engaging with these systems, my current research studies protective and adaptive morphologies found in parasitic relationships, such as the goldenrod fly, as well as chitinous structures, larvae and pupa, translating these physiologies into living, weirdly functional forms that trouble ideas of usefulness through disorder. Through these works, nutrient cycles, microbial agencies, and domestic residues move conversations from kitchens into neighborhoods and urban ecosystems, creating emergent strategies and response-abilities towards eco-plurist revitalization and sensitivities.



[Care Potion]

I believe in Restorative Justice, free and generous access to health/education/safety/home/tenderness/mutual aid, Indigenous, Black and non-white Leadership. My work is in direct relationships with (de)colonialism, food security, land sharing and free access, holistic and safe health care systems, community organizing, free education. 

Transparency: I am a white, french descent, daughter, sister, able-body from rural Québec, with access to education, health, financial stability, garden. My grandmother/mother shared their ways of knowing through cooking, pickling, gardening, knitting and sewing. My maternal grandfather who was a fisherman taught me how to navigate within nature, knowing the medicine and energies of trees, plants, water, wind, air.  

Community care: My able-body helps in growing mutual aid medicine for community and redistributing my tacit and learned skills through free opportunites in community centers, gardens, backyard, schools, personal kitchen, online, zines. I collaborate with youths in art education and ecology through making, playing, embodying. Learning, un/learning and growing the space I share, I am committed to invest in Restorative Leadership, and divest from harming systems. This is practiced by ongoing care towards youths, gardens, community kitchens and food security, backyard gatherings, grassroots non-profits.

Tenderness: My practice would not be living and decaying without the tenderness and long-held caring relationships of Indigenous Peoples such as the Kanien'kéha, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg (and many more), and new comers that share knowledge, heart and life to the lands my peoples have stolen. I have the deepest gratitude for community and family, and hope my spells can invest, and plant seeds for long tender relationships amongst multidiverse communities. My gratitude is met through planting native seeds, invasive plants materiality (not eradication), redistributing financial support, seeds, food, medicine, and space. 



[CV]
Flor, b. 1994 (Laurentides, QC)
Learning Opportunities


Active       Restoration of Natural Systems [University of Victoria]
Active       BFA - Major in Visual Arts and Community Art Education - Minor in Biology [University of Concordia]
2023         Course: Harm Reduction, PTSD [Solidarity Apothecary]
2015-2020    BS of Botany [University of Oregon State]
2015-2023.   Herboriste thérapeute - Clinique [Herbothèque]

2018-2020    Courses: Project Planning and Proposal Writing, Decolonizing and Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Sustainable Landscape                Management, Mycology 201 [University of British Columbia]
Group Shows

Upcoming     Bootlegger Magazine Edition 3.5, SAT, Montréal, Québec.
Upcoming     Earth Tones, Montréal, Québec.
2025         Tryphyllum, Parc du Boisé de Saint-Sulpice, Montréal, Québec.
2025         Loulou pour toujours, Espace Loulou, Montréal, Québec.
2024         Living Charms, EV. 10-760, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec.
2024         Offline, EarthTones Event, Avenue du Parc, Montréal, Québec.
2024         Magic Items, EarthTones Museum, Online, Montréal, Québec.

Residencies


2026        In SITU, InTerre Art, Research and Creation. Montréal, QC.  
Publications


2026        Bootlegger Magazine Edition 3.5. 
2025        Potions for Curiosity. Collaborative zine on art education. Zine.
2025        Compost Materiality. Created of a zine on Materiality and Compost, including recipes. Zine.
2024        Compost Portal. Created a zine on Compost thresholds, including recipes and philosophies. Zine.


Unique Projects


2025        Artist Calendar. Designed the month of March, tapesworld.
2023        Naesha Spell. Designed a graphic for a skateboard, Bug Skateboard.
2021        Cosmic Nature. Selected design for the pressing of skateboard. Alltimers.

Enmeshed Work

Active      Trifolium Herbal. Founder of a Herbal Mutual Aid. Montréal & Vancouver.
Active      Art Educator. La Cabane, Montréal. 
2024        Studio Assistant. Atelier Pascale Girardin. Montréal
2024        Art Educator, CEDA, Montréal.
    




This realm is conjuried alongside magical beings, humans, critters, plants, water. [In honor to the Hyalophora cecropia silk moth, pupa, cocoon]

With gratitude for you being here,