Title: Dragonfly Display [2003]
Media: Various materials: wood, paint, tissue paper, wire, rocks, twigs, overhead paper and others.
Notes: Each block of the display fits together as a puzzle to form the dragonfly's story. Each one represented a level in the maturation of the dragonfly and a reflection to various aspects of world religions. I remember when I got the assignment I didn't have a clue what I was going to make - to represent all the major world religions without directly using any of them? But my brain was stuck on dragonflies apparently. Dragonfly, dragonfly chant thrumming in my brain before I went to sleep. I swear the first 3 parts of the display burst full fledged into my dreams, all I had to do was make them. And figure out the last two. It was fun. the dragonflies are just made out of twists of tissue paper, wrapped in wire that also holds the overhead sheet wings on. They turned out surprisingly realistic. The two dragonflies of the fourth section are just tiny, about 1cm or so, of just wire twists and the plastic wings.
First stage -- hatching, born next to stream and out of water, natural baptism.
Second stage -- Summer, drought, exodus in search of sanctuary.
Third Stage -- Meditation, maturation and reflection. A pause in passing.
Fourth Stage -- Pilgrimage, dragonflies will travel great distances to find a pond, stream or lake to mate amongst the lilypads and reeds.
Fifth Stage -- Death, release, change. What colours could the soul of a dragonfly be?
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