Description
La durée de la lune, je danse avec toi mural is made up of twenty-five bas-relief, cast paper panels each representing a day in the phases of the moon. The artist used a technique called “pulp-painting” where paper pulps are pigmented separately and then applied in the mold. Empty spaces are left for a figure of a hare, and an image of cup. Placed on the floor, in front of the mural is one of the original plaster moulds used to create the panels, on it is a pair of winged feet cast in paper from the artist’s feet.
Statement
For La durée de la lune, je danse avec toi, each night, the artist observed the moon and the atmospheric conditions, and created an image representing what she saw. Over the duration of the TRACES, Symposium de la jeune peinture 1991, an impressionistic visual calendar was formed. The cup and hare are both symbols of the moon. The cup that fills and empties. Where in the west, we see a “man in the moon”, the Chinese see a hare.
Karen Trask & Don Goodes, 2024