Acteur
Toraki is my alter ego, in Maureen’s skin, and these two are in fact one and only creature. This is how I feel in our world, like a creature, wild but wise, free but not so fierce towards the other inhabitants of Planet Earth. My happiness, I find it where I can see the wind dancing in the trees, where my hands, can express beyond all words, a desire, a need to understand and honour our Earth, our vast playground and fields of joys. I collect traditional techniques, simples ways, crats, bones, feathers, skins, plants, stories, beautiful pictures. Anything that sings above the ground. I transform, share, learn where the heart runs and the eyes shine. I do not know any borders or barriers other than a society that is sometimes fearfull about love and magic. Transforming becomes the rule of my game, the most exciting and challenging! I recycle, repair, collect in anticipation of a happy marriage between two treasures.
Action
How as a species with an endless thirst for creation, can we imagine our world with the finite resources of our physical reality? What is my place as an artist, in a world where everything goes too fast and seems disconnected from ancestral techniques? How by learning, sharing, and searching for simple crafting methods can we reclaim our creative independency? This installation is an initiation into the Languages of engaged being. A stage play, hand made poetry creating meaningful reflections on our local possibilities is being displayed to you as an altar. You are then presented a collection of tools, materials, shapes and treasures, honoured and cherished for being a fertile ground in their ways of raising awareness on the manners we create and think to improve our society. This singular altar opens itself to all curious eyes, as an offering to a new collective Action dream in order to reinvest our shared creative environment.
Welcome to Torakiland.
