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Love Begets Love

Nov 17 2024

Event Details

Where: James Bay Branch Library, 385 Menzies Street, Victoria, BC
Date: Leaves November 17, 2024
When: All day

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Leaving November 17, 2024

Gabrielle Odowichuck of Limbic Media and Marie Metaphor Specht aim to create dream-like spaces that inspire thoughtful contemplation and a sense of magic. Gabrielle is an artist-engineer developing sound-reactive lighting technologies to activate installations and performances. Marie is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, spoken word artist and the current Poet Laureate of Victoria. Combining these skills and experiences has resulted in the deep exploration of light, form and visual metaphor. Their immersive installations are a physical manifestation of the conversations between these two creative minds and are a collaboration in the truest sense of the word.

Artist Statement

Love Begets Love is an immersive, sculptural light installation that uses gravity-defying forms and visual metaphors to whimsically describe the nature of loving human relationships. Love can be a lens that changes the very nature of how we see our world, just as a prism can break white light into the full spectrum of colour.

Love Begets Love’s faceted heart lanterns use carefully engineered colour-changing light patterns to represent diverse networks of loving relationships. Coloured light travels through the prism heart forms like love travels through a community. Love Begets Love is powered by Aurora software and can easily be switched from pre-programmed patterns to sound reactivity, allowing artists to perform with the installation and see their work translated live into responsive colourful lighting patterns.