Snail-work, or give the colours what turns you please (dans les cérémonies) (2024) is a large floor installation made of saturated pigmented sand, which ranges in color from deep red, bright yellow to emerald green. The sand is meticulously arranged in long, slightly uneven, scalloped-patterned stripes which references the Turkish/Persian tradition of marbled endpaper. This tradition was appropriated by European colonial empires, before becoming wide-spread in Victorian-era books.
Dubé, Joëlle. “Shannon Garden Smith.” Esse: Décomposition n°115 (09 2025).