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Installed in castle bed in Chateauneuf, FR sponsored by Le FRAC Bourgogne
Installation title: Je reste ici
I was reading Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman when I made this piece.
The figure in the animation disappears and reappears as she is reading. Dissolving into the world of the book and the world of sleep. She doesn’t keep her form for very long and in the end doesn’t exist.
Drawings used to create the animation:
(Each has undergone many frames of erasing and redrawing.)
NATHANIA RUBIN 