Dryden
2 channel installation commissioned for Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Galway Ireland,2016.
Dryden was inspired by the power of fairy tales as a means to contrast human relationship to the natural worlds. It explores how we as readers are introduced through the hero’s journey into the natural world as one full of equals, opposites and contradictions to our own world.
Dryden is an immersive installation that contemplates based on a passage of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Dryad” and her encounters of the 1867 Paris World Exposition. A Dryad is a supernatural tree nymph, who traditionally dwell in oak trees for their entire life. In Andersen’s story, this particular Dryad no longer wishes to live within the confines of her oak tree, and longs for the excitement of the city. When her wish is granted, she is taken on a journey to experience life in Paris and the Victorian exhibition, where she sinks into a magical realm held between water and glass.
2 channel installation commissioned for Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Galway Ireland,2016.
Dryden was inspired by the power of fairy tales as a means to contrast human relationship to the natural worlds. It explores how we as readers are introduced through the hero’s journey into the natural world as one full of equals, opposites and contradictions to our own world.
Dryden is an immersive installation that contemplates based on a passage of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Dryad” and her encounters of the 1867 Paris World Exposition. A Dryad is a supernatural tree nymph, who traditionally dwell in oak trees for their entire life. In Andersen’s story, this particular Dryad no longer wishes to live within the confines of her oak tree, and longs for the excitement of the city. When her wish is granted, she is taken on a journey to experience life in Paris and the Victorian exhibition, where she sinks into a magical realm held between water and glass.