Precious Okoyomon: the sun eats her children
Exploring the idea of vulnerability and traditionally docile creatures showing their claws, “the sun eats her children”—from globally-celebrated artist Precious Okoyomon—is an installation of poisonous flowers inside of a deteriorating Italian church. Among butterflies and collapsing stonework, the center of the installation is a large stuffed bear (“Beloved”) that awakens and screams at irregular intervals. To help Precious achieve this effect, we develop an animatronic systems with components for Beloved’s slow breathing motion, their audio voice box, and their sleepy eye movement.
“The World Is Breaking in Flowers the Breath of Things”
-Precious Okoyomon
Our love is a blue instant and forward-looking sky
Every dream is a moment of freedom
Bliss hovering above the void
Resonate darkness can’t be bound
It’s always being born
Ash in hand
Myths arise where it sets
Knowing there is fire
Knowing there is war
Cities rising and falling
A small black river flowing
The speed of darkness
Everything burns repeatedly
Return back to the umbilical tongue
To vesicles of present breath
Swallow bits of tenderness
Bring yourself back to the earth
Photos courtesy of Sant’Andrea de Scaphis
