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Dance This Mess Around

Finished Tue, Apr 18, 2000
am space
G/F, 50B Fengxian Lu, near Shimen Er Lu

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In the words of the artist, Sarah Blakeman: "China has tested my creative process. I embrace some aspects and struggle with others, and I've transformed this wonder and frustration into paper construction." More after the jump.

"I've used Chinese traditional auspicious motifs as a starting point. They permeate and combine with my own visual vocabulary and fetishes (candy, the "culture of cute", science fiction) to create a diorama of charms that is both a dance of good luck and a ritual for processing and surrendering to the impact of Chinese culture."

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