Laura Prieto-Velasco
San Diego, California
Breathe
formed, fabricated copper, tulle, steel, shellac, silver,
rubber pulse bulb, latex, patina
The
monarch butterfly swarms during its migration season in San Diego, infesting
the air with fluttering orange patterns. This time of season is also one that I
have come to dread - due to the development of a form of asthma caused by
debris in the air (pollen as well as pollution). I made the
"Revivalator" in response to seeing these deflated insects littering
the street.
My initial impulse was to peel up their flattened bodies and throw them in the air to have "one last flight." However, this action was short lived, and I wanted to sustain the gratifying sense of a controlled revival, sort of like swirling the glitter in a snow globe. The breath could finally be released with the viewer's interaction, right in the palm of their hand.
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