Destin Royal
2018- April to June, Unis Vert L'Art presents the collective exhibition "Unis Vert l'Intemporel". The exhibition brings together the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, the hotel's artifacts to be recycled into works of art, as well as several renowned artists such as Gilles Vigneault, Olivier Martineau and Don Darby.
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Destin Royal
51x33 inch
Photographic print on "hard cotton twill" canvas, Photoshop, acrylic, clay, antique mirror from the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.
The relative freedom of famous people...
I wonder if young Elizabeth dreamed of her future title, did she have smaller or bigger dreams? I wonder if the weight of her responsibilities and representation were worth her single life and if she could have left her position if she had decided to?_______________________________________________
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For the UVA project, I wanted to create a fantasy world around the Queen. I imagined Elizabeth in a Hawaiian Garden of Eden, playing with the taste of freedom. I chose two mirrors bordered with gold ornamentation as artifacts, and I created two photographic works from my place of residence at the time, Kauai, Hawaii.
- It was through the invigorating jungle of Haena, in the north of Kauai, a place renowned as one of the most majestic and heavenly places in the world, that the idea matured. With the help of my two accomplices, Marc, husband, and Christine, muse, I created and imagined my two future works, “Queen's Fantasy” and “How could she believe it”.
