ephemera
EPHEMERA honours the elements that we have conflicting emotions about during the coldest season and presents them in a way that highlights their evolution. An interactive installation with illuminated liquid acrylic sculptures and ambient layered music, it captures the nuances of the freeze and thaw we experience during the season.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bramble Lee Pryde is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist and curator that focuses on themes of nostalgia, low brow and irony in unexpected mediums. Her work addresses the longstanding distinction between art vs craft, as it relates to gender, access and equity, in a way that oscillates between cutting and calm. Bramble’s work has been shown nationally and published internationally.
the process
The small army that took care of this project are all local. Fabrication and the electrical build was designed and was overseen by Dooms. Original music created by Jim Copeman. Leela Jacobs was our Project Manager and Cory Nespor installed the electrical. We worked with National Neon for the welded cube.
THE WHY
Pryde chose this project as an opportunity to experiment with scale and and the challenges of working in extreme temperatures with delicate materials. In an ongoing evolution in her work being accessible and interactive was important, so raising the sculptures above the viewers head allowed for viewers to step into the cube, sit and be a part of the installation. Each existing in the same space.
Every acrylic panel was designed and hand etched by Bramble Lee Pryde after being router cut and then lit in her signature colour palette. After Chinook Blast, each panel will be used in a new body of panelled wall art.
