Voracious (bees' wax, pine-resin and bead)
Marina Dempster
Marina Dempster's hybrid art practice is born out of her own hybrid cultural identity: born in Mexico, to British and French parents, Dempster has lived in Canada since the age of three. The main focus of her work is a contemporary translation of the pre-Columbian Huichol (Mexican Indian) tradition of yarn painting, labour intensive sculptures which incorporate both textile and painting modes. She chooses to refer to her work as sculpture, referring to sculpture's secondary definition as ?a natural indentation or other marking on a plant or animal.The sculptures become records of her process of working through her own entanglements and personal transformations and whose motifs are informed by personal symbols rather than cultural motifs. Their personal mappings or tracks speak to us at a deeper level, where words have little meaning, and our latent hopes and fears are reflected.
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Horny Shoes (bees' wax, pine-resin and bead)
Voracious (bees' wax, pine-resin and bead)
Immune (bees' wax, pine-resin and bead)
Ebullient (bees' wax, pine-resin and bead)
The artist is presenting a collection of four images of high heel shoes decorated with beads, feathers and fur.
Image 1: A high heel shoe with a horn decorated with grey-blue fur and with red-pick beads. Image 2: A high heel shoe with red and black silk thread embroidery, the top edge of the shoe is outline with white teeth. Image 3: A pair of high heels shoes covered by multicoloured beads decorated with fur, feathers and porcupine needles. Image 4: High heel shoes beaded into patterns in blue, yellow and red decorated with bird feathers coming out the back and orange fur in the inside.