wow Dawn, this is really cool. thank you for sharing.
the transcript with the video is in french (and so is the narration of
course) and so i thought i would translate for myself (via google
translate) and share with you all as well.
cheers
vishakha
nyc
english transcript translated [i have not edited this translation in
anyway, so please excuse any errors that have made it thru google translate]
good evening everyone, so I am as you said. Uh Miss Maurice, visual artist,
urban artist, street artist, you can put in the box you want I don't care
uh, as you can see uh here no, I make installations that are made up of
hundreds of paper folds uh folding paper so who is called origami? Uh one
returning from Japan, but before that uh from China urban installations
that I make all over the world before explaining to you why these shapes,
why these colors? I may have told you a little bit about the origin of
these installations because it's true that we talked about forgiveness,
about the creative origin and sometimes it can come from an accident.
Because all these installations started after March eleventh two thousand
and eleven when I was in Tokio after the events so earthquakes, tsunamis,
fuckushima And so it was after these events that I started his
installations to say my nuclear name, also drawing inspiration from the
legend of the thousand cranes in the history of Sadako, as we will be able
to talk about a little later.
Uh, if you're interested, those urban installations. As seen in this image,
they are colorful in a city that is all too often a little too gray, just
because you think it is. But everything is gray, usually the bitumen, the
walls. And so it's a way of bringing a little bit of nature, a little bit
of color back into our cities. Because finally, these colors, we find them,
but in nature uh, natural phenomena the rainbow Moreover, I take uh the
colors of the rainbow which is finally the decomposition of the light. So I
will pretend to say that I put light in the city afterwards, its colors are
therefore also the spectral colors. But these are colors that are still
universally recognized as messages of peace and harmony. I can tell you
about the rainbow nation that Nelson Mandella was talking about and we also
have the Alger Better movement which is picking up its colors. The Rainbow
Warrior with Greenpeace, so it's really a message of peace. Uh here,
because between humans, regardless of our origins, our differences, we can
all be able to live together in harmony.
So it's really a work on the human, but also a work on nature and this
image, so rather well, because we find the hexagonal shape. And it's a form
that is very close to my heart because there is an animal. Well, there are
even several of them. But I'm focusing on one in particular that makes
Hexagons. And this animal is the bee, the Hexagon, because it is a very
optimal form. If we came to make thousands of soap bubbles in this room, it
would be organized into a Hexagon. An optimal form too, which reminds me
that I am too close to the microphone which reminds us that a small insect,
we can be really linked to it, us big humans, when we know that the bee is
a pollinator, that it It is thanks to them that we have fruits and
vegetables and that we humans, until proven otherwise, are not plastic
eaters. So it was a way of showing. Uh, uh, this link between humans and
nature, here, an installation created uh yes at La Villette, in Paris.
Well, I currently live in Paris, but I come from Haute Savoie.
The base here, uh, a cloud so afterwards, we can see uh, different shapes,
different things. I like to play on a part of abstraction by taking up so
later, it's France. Here, we have the triangle because for me, it really
evokes spirituality. It is also the symbol of home, of security. But uh, in
looting, I like to use geometric shapes that will remain abstract, but that
will still be evoked. Uh, uh, some things and if you look, But you can
guess shapes of birds, butterflies, flowers, flowers. So it's really
elements of fauna and flora that I try in my own way to bring back. Uh, in
the cities, a bit like, you can see climbing ivy there as well. And then
finally, it is also an anthem. Uh, I told you earlier at Solidarity, but if
you look closely at most of his words, his forms, then I don't have time to
explain everything. Why how? But these shapes appear because there are
folds around them and ultimately there is nothing inside.
So it's just to say that even if we want something that doesn't exist.
Finally, if we get together, we can get there and and and create things,
create things together. We can also play on Yvonne's kwan secularism
interaction. It was to encourage passers-by to come and take origami, to
make another one at rest. And so uh, I also like the work on uh on the
interaction and the interaction also finds it with this accumulation of
folding. It's as if, eh, folding was an individual and so we find the
action of solidarity.
