Scabiosa stellata / Starflower pincushions / Jean-Simon Trottier and Montserrat Duran Muntadas / Blown glass

Semina Percurrenta is a work in progress on which we have been working since nearly two years.

Our project consists of sculptural installations inspired by invading plants that defy borders, where the seed becomes a metaphor for freedom. Semina Percurrenta, which loosely means ''travelling seed'' in Latin.

Notorious dividers such as the Berlin and Mexican-USA walls, as well as the unattainable natural boundaries such as oceans or deserts have been easily surmounted by seeds that have been swept by the wind, floated on waves, attached themselves to animal fur, all without having to fill out a border crossing form.

Near these borders, the same migrant plants naturally find themselves disseminated here and there without any territorial consideration. It is the seeds of plants like the Scabiosa stellata, indigenous to Spain and North Africa, that inspire the forms of the sculptures. They are made by using the hot sculpted and blown glass techniques and other materials and presented in installations.

Spain is the only European country to have two territories in North Africa: Ceuta and Melilla. They are surrounded by barbed wire fences. The illegal immigrants that attempt to cross these fences are often left to die or severally hurt. The reinforcement of security measures has forced many illegal immigrants to choose the dangerous alternative of entering the European union on make shift rafts by sea.

This installation expresses the plight of all the illegal immigrants that have attempted to cross the Mediterranean sea on flimsy make shift rafts which are often made of rubber. We replaced the ''paper'' aspect of the flower with rubber, to symbolize the common material of the flotation devices.

The installation consists of various pieces of different sizes placed in a cluster on a platform from which a gust of wind could have shaken it off.