Light work #6 : In Soil
This work is completed from the work "Chrisalis / Wing of cicada".
The light is projected in whole room mailnly to the cuerved wall.
Wall, Black film, Motors, Speaker, LCD projector
This light work #6 is an installation inspired by the life of cicada.
A cicada is an insect from known its transparent wings and high pitched buzzing. Cicadas live underground as nymphs for most of their lives, feeding on root juice and having strong front legs for digging.
One summer day, the nymphs come out from the soil and climb to a branch to perform its metamorphosis.
Jean-Henri Fabre about Cicada nymphs: “The grub (nymphs) are much paler in color than those which I catch after they emerge (from the earth). Its big eyes in particular are whitish, cloudy, squinting and apparently of little use of for seeing.”
- EXHIBITION -
25-28 February 2010
Exhibitio sonicacts XIII in Amsterdam
http://2010.sonicacts.com/programme/thursday/sonic-acts-exhibition-nimk/
Many thanks for the builders, Hans Lentz, Matijn Bonfrer and Dave Sanders
15- 25 October 2009
Exibition E-pulsefestiva in Breda
http://www.e-pulsefestival.nl/
27 June - 4 July 2009
Graduation Expo at Royal Academy of Art Den Haag (KABK)
Artscience Master course
sonicacts XIII
About my work “ Light work #6: In soil” and a life of cicada
Cicadas are insects living in warm climates, known for its transparent wings and high pitched buzzing. Cicadas live underground as nymphs for most of their lives, years and years, at depths ranging from about 30 cm up to 2.5 m, feeding on root juice and having strong front legs for digging.
- Are they able to see in Soil?
Jean-Henri Fabre about Cicada nymphs: “The grub (nymphs) are much paler in color than those which I catch after they emerge (from the earth). Its big eyes in particular are whitish, cloudy, squinting and apparently of little use of for seeing.”
- Chrysalis
One summer day, the nymphs come out from the soil and climb to a branch to perform its dramatic metamorphosis. They molt (shed their skins), on a nearby plant for the last time and emerge as adults with wet transparent greenish wings. The abandoned skins remain, still clinging to the bark of trees. The body dries by morning with sunrise, In that moment, the wings wrinkles stretch and wait for the first fly.
In Summer in Japan, cicada’s loud chorus are every where, even in the middle of cities, where I was grown up. Like “zzzzzzzz!!!”, “miiiin min min min min miiiin!!!” Although those sounds are attacking my ear and brain, I could accept them as a melancholic season event, because next moment, I discover there are plenty of their dried decreases on streets, under trees. So I realize, that after many years of being in the darkness, they finally live in the light but for such a short time.
This light work #6 is an installation inspired by the life of cicada in Soil. Questioning my self, “How they wait for the day coming up to the world in the sun? ” brought this work “Light imagination in the darkness”
Yoko Seyama
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