Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Unforgiven Knowledge, is a soft sculpture inspired by oral storytelling and modes of inner visualization fuelled by synesthetic transpositions. Its surrealist format shares a symbolistic view of one of the Bible’s versions of Genesis 2. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Generativity is a soft sculpture that symbolizes a sight-activated memory deriving from the idea of the initial phase of the life-inception cycle. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Eternal, is a sculpture inspired by the contradiction between the volatile essence of scents and the crystallized imprints created by contact with significant olfactive experiences. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Genesis is a sculpture that symbolically represents one's rebirth via the vessels of creative languages and modes of expression. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Untameable is a sculpture that aims to illustrate the perpetual movement of emotions inside one's physical form using the symbolism of the urn as a vessel for human figures. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Part of the Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels series, Time is a soft sculpture that speaks of the interrelation between life and death. It aims to illustrate the life cycle's precious yet elusive qualities with the idea of quantification and continuity. (1/1)

Fragments of Mnemonic Marvels is a collection of artworks containing several fibre treatments and a multidisciplinary digital audio-visual artwork (2:30). The series explores memory-induced creation propelled by the senses. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon immersion, using the altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Inspired by Renaissance tapestries and the art of Goldwork, Three Wishes addresses the idea of a connection to the sacred and its relation to apophatic views (faith) exploring material symbolism. The miniature scale of this artwork analogically emphasizes the sacred properties of one’s faith-based beliefs.

Artist Concept, Photography by Marcel Cristocea.

Series: 20

This photographic series portrays 3 key archetypes; perfection, illusion, and vulnerability.

The stylized visual series addresses the cognitive and physical cost of defining oneself in a performative format. The Mask Down project raises mental health awareness questions about individual and collective identities and aims to convey self-acknowledgment and empowerment messages to its viewers.

Artist Concept, Photography by Marcel Cristocea.

Series: 20

This photographic series portrays 3 key archetypes; Perfection, Illusion, and Vulnerability.

The stylized visual series addresses the cognitive and physical cost of defining oneself in a performative format. The Mask Down project raises mental health awareness questions about individual and collective identities and aims to convey self-acknowledgment and empowerment messages to its viewers.

Artist Concept, Photography by Marcel Cristocea

Series: 20

This photographic series portrays 3 key archetypes; perfection, illusion, and vulnerability.

The stylized visual series addresses the cognitive and physical cost of defining oneself in a performative format. The Mask Down project raises mental health awareness questions about individual and collective identities and aims to convey self-acknowledgment and empowerment messages to its viewers.

“Illusion, take me into your ethereal dance.”

Excerpt from "Mask Down," an audiovisual (video format) artwork that shows an embodied persona shifting perspectives about identity, self-worth, and vulnerability. The Mask Down project raises mental health awareness questions about individual and collective identities and aims to convey self-acknowledgment and empowerment messages to its viewers.

Cinematography and photography: Marcel Cristocea

Concept, AD, Script, Choreography, Performance, Set, and Costume Design: Cinthya Chalifoux

Mediums: Wool, Silk, Gold (24k.), Metal.

The Heart-Shaped Box explores the state of pain related to the parting of a significant person. The heart floats within this space, attached to this mental and physical predicament. The memories attached to the loved one create inner resistance and physical and emotional effects.

With the sculpture, the poem, in audio format, expresses the inner monologue activated by pain and seeks to immerse its audience, facilitating a sensorial connection to emotional memory. The Heart-Shaped Box addresses ideologies of health (physical and mental), acceptance, resilience, balance, inner strength, and identity.

The audio soundscape is subject to copyright and is for personal use only. Commercial use is not permitted.

Soundscape Text, Narration, and Art Direction: Cinthya Chalifoux

Musical Arrangements and Sound Design: Annie Sama

Photography: Marcel Cristocea

The Heart-Shaped Box, poetry, 2020.

The Heart-Shaped Box explores the state of pain related to the parting of a significant person. The heart floats within this space, attached to this mental and physical predicament. The memories attached to the loved one create inner resistance and physical and emotional effects.

With the sculpture, the poem, in audio format, expresses the inner monologue activated by pain and seeks to immerse its audience, facilitating a sensorial connection to emotional memory. The Heart-Shaped Box addresses ideologies of health (physical and mental), acceptance, resilience, balance, inner strength, and identity.

The audio soundscape is subject to copyright and is for personal use only. Commercial use is not permitted.

Soundscape Text, Narration, and Art Direction: Cinthya Chalifoux

Musical Arrangements and Sound Design: Annie Sama

Photography: Marcel Cristocea

The Heart-Shaped Box explores the state of pain related to the parting of a significant person. The heart floats within this space, attached to this mental and physical predicament. The memories attached to the loved one create inner resistance and physical and emotional effects.

With the sculpture, the poem, in audio format, expresses the inner monologue activated by pain and seeks to immerse its audience, facilitating a sensorial connection to emotional memory. The Heart-Shaped Box addresses ideologies of health (physical and mental), acceptance, resilience, balance, inner strength, and identity.

The audio soundscape is subject to copyright and is for personal use only. Commercial use is not permitted.

Soundscape Text, Narration, and Art Direction: Cinthya Chalifoux

Musical Arrangements and Sound Design: Annie Sama

Photography: Marcel Cristocea

Familiar Ground 1 is part of a textile prints study that works série on silk using hand-treated natural dyes. Familiar Grounds is inspired by childhood memories, using an interdisciplinary approach that builds upon immersion in an altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

The Dream Sate is part of textile prints série on silk using natural dyes, colour discharge, and modification. This visual artwork explores an abstract representation form of the unconscious state of mind, using an interdisciplinary approach that builds upon immersion in an altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.

Inspired by Remedios Varo’s painting (oil on canvas) Still Life Reviving (1963), Purple Still refers to the low senses (feminine senses) in a surrealist form. This work implies the mystic properties of the daily rituals and womanhood (female alchemist). In contradiction to Varo’s work format (painting), which primarily engages the sense of sight, Purple Still engages the low sense of touch and taste yet refers to the themes addressed by Varo. This artwork celebrates life, the creative force, the low senses, and the feminine divine.

Techniques Used: Soft Sculpture, needle paint embroidery, coiling, and natural dying (logwood).

Photography: Marcel Cristocea

Does memory ever fade? A simple cognitive spark can reinitiate crystallized thoughts. What the Sun Takes, The Moon Reclaims, aims to illustrate the human memory's resilient strength in an abstract format. The artist uses multiple natural dye manipulations (color removal and addition) methods and silver thread-couching embroideries to create this original artwork and an interdisciplinary approach that builds upon immersion in an altered consciousness state to inform mnemonic accessibility, transmission, and transformation via synaesthetic influence.