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When a hand appears, then click for a closer view of a snail.
In
the spring of 2000, seven year old Tamatea brought home a snail as his pet.
Soon he had 4 snails. Then he set about training them to move faster or
to move in particular routes and especially to listen to him.
Fascinated by this, the three of us chose the snail as our "character" for
the installation work, "Dans le jardin
des beaux arts "
We settled on 19 snail forms varying in size from a metre to a few centimetres.
All carry spiralling texts alluding to time and perspective. The texts
look at these issues from various viewpoints, in an order and tempo chosen
by the viewer.
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The text on the snail at the bottom reads:
"The tide was a million kilometres wide and its noise was like deafening thunder. It was a continuum of past, present, and future, filled with creatures of darkness and creatures of light which swam, divided, united and swam again."
The snails were made out of thin black vinyl which moulded to ground, showing -depending on the irregularity of the bricks-
the patterns of the bricks through the forms.
The above text from the book, "The Dream Swimmer" by the New
Zealand author, Witi Ihimaera, conjures up magical worlds in various
time-frames with nature at its centre.
Box-house on the drain pipe high on left wall: Jacqueline Wassen.
Centre: (in rose window): cloth sculpture by Jessy Rahman
Boardroom window: The Gifts of Time Mail Art Project.
Lamp: Collages by Joke Elzinga