LALIE S. PASCUAL


The peace pipe



With Music by Paco Chambi


In 1855 Henri Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Song of Hiawatha”, an epic poem about a Native American hero who helps and guides his tribe. It is a story about bravery but also about kindness, tolerance and peace, with environmental wisdom and striking appreciation to the beauty of Nature. Nature and land are not separated and distinct from humans. Nature is something that humans live within and are part of. There is no sense of superiority or ownership.


The Peace Pipe, which is inspired by the Song of Hiawatha, was created as a call for all human to make peace with Nature. It displays alternative worlds where natural elements like trees, flowers, plants, water, snow, glide in and out the pictorial plain, thereby creating a recurrence of motifs in a world with endless possibilities. They aim to suggest a different view of our world and environment and offer a different perception of it, depicting Nature as beautiful as romantic poetry can be.


The peace Pipe was displayed together with the WEST WIND body of work at espace CHUV, 2020.



My best friend



With Music by Paco Chambi


“Your best friend”, was created as an homage to Native American’s myths of how man discovered the corn (a gift of Nature that can be preserved for the cold days of the winter, thus, providing man with security). It takes its origin (i.e. video clips) in a corn field and uses digital editing tools to reconstruct its story following movements of a Dream Catcher, a symbol of earth, air and the circle of life. As the Dream Catcher swirls in the wind, it casts shadows, which are used to reshape the original imagery of the corn field. The wind, therefore, transforms the corn field as we know, into new realities creating a space to consider our relationship with Nature. Who is our best friend ? The corn, Nature, or the eyes and faces picking at us between the corn leaves ? Regardless, Your Best Friend aims at suggesting other ways of being, in a world where the wind continues to bring change and hope.


The peace Pipe was displayed together with the WEST WIND body of work at espace CHUV, 2020.



JUST A POSSIBILITy



With: Murielle Bortolotti


’It’s Just a Possibility’ is a mix of video with digital animation presenting a relationship between a dancer and a world which is in different states of evolution. Together they create a fragile equilibrium where shapes and movements are in a constant state of regeneration. Is it the beginning ? Is it the end ? Or, perhaps it is the perpetual transformation and endless possibilities that matter the most ?


The video was created following the Exposure Science Film Hackaton in 2016 at the University of Lausanne. It was screened at the Alchemic Body | Fire .Air .Water .Earth exhibition organized by It's Liquid Group in collaboration with Laura Haber Gallery, Argentina.



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