In May 2020, Mimi Seery, resident artist of Abbey Road Studios, Athlone, created the Museum of Miniature Public Art as an alternative way to engage the public with art during lockdown.
The online exhibition invited participants to perform a short meditation before projecting themselves into this tiny world she created. Using the power of imagination the viewer was immersed in this miniature world where time, space and lockdown restrictions no longer exist. They are there again amongst their family and friends, together in this new realm, fully immersed in the art they are viewing.
One of those works has now become a reality, located at Athlone Library until Thursday, September 23.
'In Praise of Shadows' is a typographic shadow installation that uses the most powerful and nurturing natural resource – the sun – to directly communicate the message of focusing on the present moment. Nature is literally speaking to its people.
Watching the text appear and disappear according to the suns visibility reminds us of how fleeting, and how special each and every moment we have really is.
About the Artist
Mimi Seery is a multimedia artist based in Athlone. After receiving a BA in Fine Art in Sligo IT, Seery travelled extensively through Asia to experience the diversities and commonalties found between Western and Eastern cultures. Upon her return she studied graphic design at Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE ) where she focused on advertising and the principals of how the subject uses psychology for persuasion, this became a great influence on her current visual art practice.
