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Pierre Poussin is a Canadian artist who specializes
in creating large-scale public art installations and
permanent artworks for municipal clients and
urban developers. Recently, his work has evolved
into more abstract pieces which embrace themes
of local history, nature, movement, community,
identity, technology, and the relationship between
natural and urban landscapes. His work examines
a series of inherent contrasts in our environments: natural vs industrial,
history vs future, dynamic vs static.
WE ARE ALL STARDUST
By Pierre Poussin
Artist Statement
We are all stardust – our atoms were created in our stars' atomic hearts.
As a child growing up in Northern Canada, Pierre was obsessed with clear
night skies. Watching the Milky Way's blanket of stars humbled him and left
him with a sense of awe. While reading his mother's university books, Pierre
stumbled upon a simple concept by Carl Sagan that had a profound effect
on him: "The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff." Our atoms and
our selves are scatterings of stardust.
