Be Like A Dragonfly
June 26, 2020 / Online Event
Curated by Angela Valella
Be Like a Dragonfly is an ephemeral artwork in the form of recording-sessions that employ photography and music with the participation of a vast world audience by using their cellular phone recording devices.
Dragonflies are powerful and agile fliers, capable of migrating across the sea, moving in any direction, and changing direction suddenly. In-flight, the adult dragonfly can propel itself in six directions: upward, downward, forward, backward, left, and right. The novelist H.E. Bates described the rapid, agile flight of dragonflies in his 1937 nonfiction book, Down the River:
"I saw, once, an endless procession, just over an area of water lilies, of small sapphire dragonflies, a continuous play of blue gauze over the snowy flowers above the sun-glassy water. It was all confined, in true dragonfly fashion, to one small space. It was a continuous turning and returning, an endless darting, poisoning, striking, and hovering…"
Sound-pieces and photos have been submitted so far by: Sound-pieces, videos and photos: Pip Brandt, Hollywood, FL / Xavier Buitre, Miami Shores, FL / Aleli Egues, Coral Gables, FL / Alicia Knoepfel, Barcelona, Spain / Ana Somoza, Vigo, Spain / Odalis Valdivieso, New York, NY / Sara Coriat, Madrid, Spain / Rina Carvajal, Coral Gables, FL / Carlos Betancourt, El Portal, FL / Michelle Penkrot, College Station, TX / Consuelo Castaneda, Miami Beach, FL / Claudia Ariano, Miami Beach, FL / Jorge Luis Gutierrez, Philadelphia, PA / George Fishman, Miami, Fl / Roc Laseca, Tenerife, Spain / Jose Palacios Inaki, Miami Beach, FL / Illaria Lilly D'Alessandro, NYC and Italy / Cristina Figueroa Vives, La Habana, Cuba / Allan Gutierrez, New York, NY / Benita Marrero, Fasnia, Canaria, Spain / Frank Dilone, El Doral, FL / Eddie Arroyo, Little Haiti, FL / Yunior Careaga R, Miami, Fl / Marcos Valella, Ridgewood, NY / Natxo Moralejo, Terragona, Spain / Francisco "Curro" Tardio, Madrid, Spain / Stephanie Lupu, Chicago, IL / Nilo Cruz, Design District, FL / Adrian Valella, Houston, TX / Lorena Villar, Coral Gables, FL / Evelyn Perez, The Roads, Fl / Yamilet Hernandez, South Beach, FL / Tony Labat, San Francisco, CA / Ana Ochoa, La Rioja, Miami Beach, FL / Arturo E. Mosquera and Arturo F. Mosquera, Coral Gables, FL / Rafael Diaz-Casas, Inwood, Upper Manhattan, NYC, NY / Olivia Knoepfel, Barcelona, Spain / Sara Coriat, Madrid, Spain / Cristina Villamil, Coral Gables, FL / Robert Figueroa-Pegs, Broward, FL / Vicky Cerda, Coral Gables FL / Tomas Valdivieso, Miami Beach, FL / Luis Fumero, La Zarza, Spain / Andres Michelena, North Miami Beach, Fl / Yeraldine Ordonez, Miami, FL / Andres Michelena, North Miami Beach, FL / Ainhoa Urcelay Callejo, Madrid, Spain / Jose Iraola, Pinecrest, FL / Miguel Ronsino, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Terio Mastrapa, Miami, Fl / Beatriz Alburqueque, NYC. NY / Victor Rodriguez, Miami, FL / Claudio and Daniel Figueroa, Coconut Grove, FL / Hernan Rivera- Luque, Brooklyn, NY / Ileana Casanova, Brickell, Miami, Fl / Pablo Soria, Miami FL / Lazaro Godoy, Miami FL / Omni-Kissy, Miami Beach FL / Madelyn Mateo, Coral Gables, FL / Fernando Salimbene, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Danma Papadopoulos, Rheinfelden, Switzerland / Antonieta Cendoya, Tallinn, Estonia.
Photo: Anthony Malakates. A visitor on my desert rose bonsai, Miami Beach, FL, 04/04/20
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