"duration 1757 days"
date. 2021
place. UQÀM University
materials. paper
size. in situ installation 3.5mx x 2.5m x 1.5m
My farewell to the academic world and the gallery art I studied in. This installation combined everything I had learned about myself in university. Multimedium, repetition, accumulation, in-situ installation, this project had it all and was a wonderful last hurrah to my academic career.
This installation’s title refers to the number of days my BAC in fine arts took me, and so, this installation done during my final semester is centered around it. Its theme is the japanese myth of the koi carp climbing the water fall, and who after reaching the top transforms into a dragon. This origami dragon made from my digital drawings, rises from a waterfall made of my university class notes, showing my departure from the academic cradle into my future art career, as well as my growth through learning.
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To simulate the dragon merging into the wall and exiting it as it ascends, only parts of the back and twisting belly are shown. The dragon neck and head (detaill on the bottom left) were supposed to be hung on the wall above said coils but the support was damaged during transport to the gallery room. The scales are made of printed digital drawings of mine, cut into squares, and then folded. The belly scales are made of black and white drawings, while the back scales are of colored ones. Over 5000 scales were folded for this project. While the installation of the dragon coils was before the presentation, the notes were ripped out of my notebooks, crumpled and placed a few minutes before, thus adding a performance and cathartic side to this work.
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