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Le Chant de la Creation

Major collection: Holography
Named collection: Holography Collection
Object type: hologram
Maker: Cossette, Marie-Andree
Date made: 1981
Materials: reflection hologram; glass
Measurements: 10 in x 8 in
Nomenclature: fine art
Classification: holograms

Surreal green image in which a shadow of a bird in flight comes out of a human ear (Escher-like) that is adjoined to a monolithic wall; the wall and a conch shell in front of the wall are set within sand that stretches into the foreground.


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MOH-1982.06