Mixed media sculpture, 2009

Part of the series โ€˜In // Sensitiveโ€™. Shoes are amongst the three-dimensional found forms onto which Marina Dempster works her contemporary translation of the pre-Columbian Huichol tradition of โ€˜yarn paintingโ€™. Immersed in this attentive and time-honoured process, multicultural ethnography meets haute couture as she autonomously concerns herself with issues of personal connection to oneโ€™s histories and futures by nurturing present narratives, environments, communities and cultures.

Immune (adj.):
1. Having immunity to infection.
2. Exempt, as from obligation or duty
3. Protected from danger.

Materials: found shoes, beeswax/pine resin, beads, yarns, recycled rabbit fur, porcupine quills, Macaw & Flamingo feathers (Toronto Zoo donations).

Photo’s by Marina Dempster Photography.


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