Anja Marais Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/Marais Size: Each dress 4.5' x 4.5' Material: Hand sewn Paper, wire, charcoal, river rock The title: The Woman Who Was Turned Into a Tree where: West Martello, Key West, FL Project: Installation for Sculpture Key West 2008 descrip: Two Victorian hoop dresses made out of paper with an internal wire structure that will be floating in midair . Will be suspended by the ceiling. weight:5lb each drawing: The paper dress itself is filled with charcoal drawings. The drawings on the dress entails that of an African fable that are being told by the San people known as the bush-man. African fabels are wonderful in the sense that it is full of animism. (the belief that inanimate things have consciousness or personality) where you personify nature and animals. The fables are also full of mysterious deities and gods. The African gods are always part human and part animal, and there ancestors told their descendants this because they wanted to instill the idea of the oneness of humans and animals. By making us believe that the highest gods were part human being and part animal, we were taught to look upon animals and nature with great reverence and respect. Thus the primary thrust of this drawing is an exploration of a celestial state of the merging of man and animal. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/The-Woman-Who-Was-Turned-Into-a-Tree_/191315 Size: Each dress 4.5' x 4.5' Material: Hand sewn Paper, wire, charcoal, river rock The title: The Woman Who Was Turned Into a Tree where: West Martello, Key West, FL Project: Installation for Sculpture Key West 2008 descrip: Two Victorian hoop dresses made out of paper with an internal wire structure that will be floating in midair . Will be suspended by the ceiling. weight:5lb each drawing: The paper dress itself is filled with charcoal drawings. The drawings on the dress entails that of an African fable that are being told by the San people known as the bush-man. African fabels are wonderful in the sense that it is full of animism. (the belief that inanimate things have consciousness or personality) where you personify nature and animals. The fables are also full of mysterious deities and gods. The African gods are always part human and part animal, and there ancestors told their descendants this because they wanted to instill the idea of the oneness of humans and animals. By making us believe that the highest gods were part human being and part animal, we were taught to look upon animals and nature with great reverence and respect. Thus the primary thrust of this drawing is an exploration of a celestial state of the merging of man and animal. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/The-Woman-Who-Was-Turned-Into-a-Tree_/191315 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:40:38 -0600 False Securtiy 2009 Metal Camper, paper, yarn, Foam, Paper teeth, fabric, wire 6.5' x 14'x 8' Installation for Sculpture Key West 2009 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/False-Security/191370 False Securtiy 2009 Metal Camper, paper, yarn, Foam, Paper teeth, fabric, wire 6.5' x 14'x 8' Installation for Sculpture Key West 2009 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/False-Security/191370 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:11:12 -0600