Ancient Follicle Seeks Green Wish by Puddle Popper (Sarah Davidson, Juli Majer, Sonja Ratkay and Melanie Thibodeau)

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"Ancient Follicle Seeks Green Wish," invitation 2017

Opening reception is November 10 at 8PM. Admission is free and open to the public.

For this most recent collaborative effort, Puddle Popper has discussed wisdoms of bodies, and physical and narrative fragments. Ancient Follicle Seeks Green Wish is based on the model of past projects, where they collectively drew and printed artist books as a way of planning out sculpture-based exhibitions.

“Fantasists are childish, childlike. They play games. They dance on the burning ground. […] Even when they are making entire universes, they are only playing.”

(Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘Do it Yourself Cosmology’)

Through merging of forms, Puddle Popper creates a set-like world featuring invented beings, humanoids, tentacles and unreadable text. Puddle Popper moves towards our desires, moving between description, invention and idealization to wiggle around truths. Flowers can hurt us. Appendages transform. Colour is revised. Portals open up, we put our limbs part way through, and then all the way through. New bodies are observed and created. Slipping through realities, Ancient Follicle Seeks Green Wish is an exploration and re-imagination of being(s) in different worlds.