Proposal for the installation: Vacas hambrientas, Pajaros soñadores: una exploración del amor, miedo, extasís y odio de la intimidad. By: Erin Araujo, www.wix.com/donttimetravel/main-site Proposed dates: April-May , 2010 (though other dates are possible) The Work Proposed This installation is an exploration of intimacy; the push and pull of what it means to be close to ourselves, animals, ideas and other humans in all of the real and imagined experiences that create closeness and distance. The piece will realized thr ough the creation of an animal mes h of wire and other media as sculpture to be be mounted in the Cerrillo Studio Gallery . The animals will crawl out ofthe walls, the ceiling and the floor, f rozen in time reaching out to the center of the gallery . The space will be filled with recorded music, animal and human sounds, and illuminated by small colored lights in the center of each cow and bird and other real and imagined animals. Upon entering the gallery space the viewer will be encouraged to move through the space, 2-3 people at a time, so that they may explore the hard metal mesh bodies, soft ears and tongues, glistening waxy teeth and out reaching hands and wings that are all suspended in the tense but soft wire that simultaneously supports and is the piece itsel f. The two primary animals to be included repetitiously , in the piece will be cows of all kinds of birds. The birds, with their intense movement and energy , affection for one another, and predatory practices, that when sleeping transport them to skies well beyond our reach are animals that often co-habitate with humans and are known to us even in urban settings. While the cows, rural, massive, slow , soft and intimidating are representative creatures that call us closer while frightening us with their s ize and their own fear of our closeness. The small lights to be placed inside of the animals and human parts will show their emotions, dreams and life energy. The work will be done specifically for the g allery with the understanding that it will be entombed in the walls of the space, unless sections of the work are sold. Plan for the installation: The gallery space, 5m x 5m x 5m will be covered by an approximately 1m deep structure on the walls and ceiling composed of bodies ofanimals (including humans and mythical creatures, but primarily birds and cows). The small lights that will be placed inside of them will be the size of Christmas lights sometimes pulsing, sometimes barely visible. The inst allation will transform the walkable gallery space into a softerovalesque polygon of approx. 4m in diamete r. It is anticipated that the creation ofthe piece will require about 200-300 hours of work with Illustration 1: Sketch of wire mesh animals with colored lights inside
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8/7/2019 Cerrillo Studio Gallery Proposal ERIN JUNE Araujo Pic2011
Proposed dates: April-May, 2010 (though other dates are possible)
The Work Proposed
This installation is an exploration of intimacy; the push and pull of what it means to be close to
ourselves, animals, ideas and other humans in all of the real and imagined experiences that createcloseness and distance. The piece will realized through the creation of an animal mesh of wire and
other media as sculpture to be be mounted in the Cerrillo Studio Gallery. The animals will crawl out of
the walls, the ceiling and the floor, frozen in time reaching out to the center of the gallery. The space
will be filled with recorded music, animal and human sounds, and illuminated by small colored lightsin the center of each cow and bird and other real and imagined animals.
Upon entering the gallery space the viewer will be encouraged to move through the space, 2-3
people at a time, so that they may explore the hard metal mesh bodies, soft ears and tongues, glisteningwaxy teeth and out reaching hands and wings that are all suspended in the tense but soft wire that
simultaneously supports and is the piece itself. The two primary animals to be included repetitiously,
in the piece will be cows of all kinds of birds. The birds, with their intense movement and energy,affection for one another, and predatory practices, that when sleeping transport them to skies well
beyond our reach are animals that often co-habitate with humans and are known to us even in urban
settings. While the cows, rural, massive, slow, soft and intimidating are representative creatures thatcall us closer while frightening us with their size and their own fear of our closeness. The small lights
to be placed inside of the animals and human parts will show their emotions, dreams and life energy.
The work will be done specifically for the gallery with the understanding that it will be entombed in the
walls of the space, unless sections of the work are sold.
Plan for the installation:
The gallery space, 5m x 5m x5m will be covered by an
approximately 1m deep
structure on the walls andceiling composed of bodies of
animals (including humans and
mythical creatures, but
primarily birds and cows).The small lights that will be
placed inside of them will be
the size of Christmas lightssometimes pulsing, sometimes
barely visible. The installation
will transform the walkablegallery space into a softer
ovalesque polygon of approx.
4m in diameter. It isanticipated that the creation of
the piece will require about
200-300 hours of work with Illustration 1: Sketch of wire mesh animals with colored lights inside
about half of that to be done in the gallery. Some of the pieces can be made outside of the gallery, in
my studio, but a large part of the work with have to be constructed on site.
About the materials
The wire, commonly called alambre para armar in San Cristobal is commonly used in
construction to lightly secure larger metal bars and just about anything else. It is highly malleable,about 2 mm in diameter, and yet strong enough to support itself in larger animal sculptures. I have
worked with this material for about 8yrs and find it highly functional for creating large animals and
smaller pieces as well.
About the Artist
Erin Araujo is a bilingual, native New Yorker that splits her time between New York City andSan Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico. Her artistic process is a well-tuned conglomerate of constant solo and
collaborative painting, sculpture, stop-motion video, activism and radical geography.
Araujo has exhibited in New York, Mexico and Bolivia. Her work is deeply personal, exploringa sense of transparency and transition that parallels the struggles of love, death, life and injury that
comes from living in countries that are constantly at war.
In May she will complete a MA in Geography at Hunter College, CUNY, complimenting her BS
Illustration 2: Sketch for plan of the installation with wire animals occupying most of the space. In
the actual installation the ceiling will be filled with animals as well as all walls of the gallery.
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Going Ostrich (End of the World) 2009, was created in an attempt to express a common feeling of helplessness in the face of constant war and natural disasters that surround us in the first decade of the
21st century. While those that respond to the general destruction of the human and natural environment
are few, there seems to be a general consensus that one must hide and ignore the problems that face usin the new millennium and yet my own instinct is to keep my head out of the sand and act.
Inculcate Struggle 2009, expresses the constant process of learning, teaching, sharing, and growing.
Illustration 5: Going Ostrich (End of the World). 2009. Wire and mixed media. 3.5m x 3m x 60cm
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