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The line
He is clean, as a scalpel cut.
Every morning he wakes up early: the erecting sun is exploding his heart.
Wearing a fur and returning to the bed, letting the sun burn him alive.
Getting excited.
Downloading the A.
The long grey lines are all folded nicely in the wardrobe.
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Morning flower (originally written in Braille)
“I am Normal. I will take you to your dream. My love is: a sugar house near Ramla. We will have two children: one in black and one in white. Your fingers will taste of nicotine. We could smile to the soap balloons and then we would kill them. I will lick your wedding dress. You are wearing the YSL lipstick number seven. Would you wear me?”
*Ramla is a city in central Israel.
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The line
He is clean, as a scalpel cut.
Every morning he wakes up early: the erecting sun is exploding his heart.
Wearing a fur and returning to the bed, letting the sun burn him alive.
Getting excited.
Downloading the A.
The long grey lines are all folded nicely in the wardrobe.
PAIRED is composed of three parts: four paired images and a text for each. I experience frequent polar mood changes that are accompanied by an intense, extended imagination. In this work I document my states in the form of an image. Looking backwards, I use emotional links, but connect them in improper ways, thereby constructing a kind of mental mutation that is similar to the creatures of Doctor Moreau.
Aurora Ira is a UK-based Israeli contemporary artist. Her work utilizes self-portrait, video, photography and installation to explore transformations of both the artist’s and the public’s (mental) Self. auroraira.com