Illuminations Past Exhibit
: December 22 - Jan 6, 2006 In this illumination all striving is forgotten. Hongzhi Zhengjue |
Opening on the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year and running through January 6th, 2007, visitors to Studio @ 620 will experience the magic of shadow play installed by the Oiseaux Sisters and their collective team, the Shadow Pixies headed by artist Robert King. Works of cut paper, paint, cloth, metal, wood and wire will be illuminated by multiple light sources, projections and playful input from the public. The installation will ask and answer many questions about childhood stories and adult fictions. Your experience of sunlight and shadow will be forever transformed. An animation created by students at Perkins Elementary School inspired by last year’s First Night shadow puppet play will also be featured. On
First Night 2007, we will expand the installation
to create Shadow Gardens, an all encompassing,
irresistibly participatory visual enchantment. The gallery will
become an impromptu theater. A varied and ever-changing troupe
of shadow creatures created by site visitors of all ages will
dance across the walls, screens and ceiling, mingling with the
cut shapes of an artist-made shadow cast. Some other features
of the evening will be shadow hats and other silhouette-wear with
cut paper facets to add continuous movement to the shadow dance,
costumed artist fortune tellers to illuminate possibilities for
the coming year and continuous shadow animations. |
 Shadows created during First Night 2006 which inspired this installation. Images by Robert King and used in his animation in exhibit |
 Grid Detail |
 Dream Messenger, by Oiseaux Sisters, Carolyn Fellman. Carved and marbled wood, worked nickle, wire. 14” wide X 18” tall. |
The
moon's appearance, a river of stars, Snow-clad pines, clouds hovering on mountain peaks. In darkness, they glow with brightness. In shadows, they shine with a splendid light. Like the dreaming of a crane flying in empty space, Like the clear, still water of an autumn pool, Endless eons dissolve into nothingness, Each distinguishable from the other. In this illumination all striving is forgotten. - Hongzhi Zhengjue |
