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I am participating in this Art event with Galerie : NiVuNiCornu in St-Anne de Beaupré, PQ ,Canada
My new piece “Melusine” will be exposed.
Month: February 2017
15 February ,the WOW exhibition opens in Peabody Museum, Salem , Mass, USA
My costume SKIN is part of the collection
I was lucky to see the same show in the EMP museum in Seattle last summer.
It is a wonderful exhibition.
I have been working very hard for more than two months to create “Mélusine”.
She is 3 meters long and has 596 openings.
To make it all happen, I received some weeks of assistance from one of my students.
Thanks for your generosity, Tinie!
It took 8 days to felt it completely…..
She seems to belong to the water.
Melusine is a figure of European folklore, a feminine spirit of fresh water in a sacred spring or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent from the waist down (much like a mermaid)
beyond all that pain has taught
me, the soft well at the base of
time has opened, and life
touching me there
has turned me into a flower
that prays for rain. Now
I understand: to blossom
is to pray, to wilt and shed
is to pray, to turn to mulch
is to pray, to stretch in the dark
is to pray, to break surface
after great months of ice
is to pray, and to squeeze love
up the stalky center toward the
sky with only dreams of color
is to pray, and finally to unfold
again as if never before
is to be the prayer.
Mark Nepo