This website is a testimony to the real life adventure of the Vector monarca.

Over thirty-four days of Octember 2007 (October and November) artist Patrick Beaulieu and author Daniel Canty piloted the Monarca Mobile, a modified 1978 postal truck, transformed into a pseudo-scientific observatory, portable art gallery and mobile video projection unit. In this archaic vehicle, at once lumbering and delicate, they followed, by way of land, the aerial path of the monarch butterflies’ annual migration over North America.

Their travels led them from Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, across the United States and to the province of Michoacán, México, into the mountains where the monarchs gather by the millions every year around the Day of the Dead.

According to the Purhépecha people who are native to the area, the monarchs are the souls of the departed come back to honour the thoughts of the living for them. To follow the Vector monarca is also to follow a monumental migration of souls.