Dandelionheart #1
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John Marriott
Artist's Statement:
(With apologies to Sir James George Frazer)
We cultivate images and formal systems to manifest our values and aspirations. Alas, visualizations often wane and become stagnant or go dormant. In response our collective will beckons for a messenger to till the image fields strewn with broken husks of hope and nostalgia. We enlist our emissary to rework sacred familiar themes, to pass breath across scattered seeds of cliché and shared truths so that belief in the future might take root.
Artist's Bio:
John Marriott is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. His performances, interventions, videos, installations, sculptures and images have been featured in exhibitions and festivals nationally and internationally in venues such as The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto 1995, 1996), The Impakt Festival (Utrecht, 2003), 25HRS (Barcelona, 2003), The Rotterdam International Festival of Film and Video (Rotterdam, 2003), The 7a*lld International Festival of Performance Art (Toronto, 2004), The ZKM (Karlsruhe, 2004) and The Toronto Sculpture Garden (Toronto, 2006).
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