Mitchell F. Chan & Brad Hindson
A Dream of Pastures is an interactive outdoor sculpture and animated light projection. On the exterior
wall of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the ghostly form of a horse glows on the shadowy brick. On the ground
several meters in front of it, a strange apparatus attached to a saddle beckons for investigation from
the viewer.
As the viewer interacts with the object, he discovers that the phantom horse moves accordingly, animated
by a mysterious system of projecting lights and turning gears. The viewer interacts more intensely with
the saddle apparatus, the gears rotate quicker, and the horse of light breaks into a gallop. Sitting
in the saddle, the viewer creates a shadow that lines up with the horse, casting himself as a jockey
in the projected world, galloping through the empty pastures of a fictitious world at an exhilarating
pace.
[ Mitchell F. Chan website ]
[ selected photographs ]
A Dream of Pastures
Multimedia Installation
A32 Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W
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