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Sculpture/Installation

Maddy Young

homing, or, pigeon store people city

Performance
2024
Baltic Birch Plywood, Liquitex Acrylic Paints, Golden Extra Course Pumic Gel, Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch 2X Gloss Apple Red, Aosom Bicycle Cargo Trailer (reclaimed and repaired), Craft Wood, Rust-Oleum Stops Rust Bright Coat Metallic Spray Paint, Digitally Printed Acrylic, SHOPLED LED Light Strips, 16.4ft LED Lights Strip for Bedroom, led Strip Lights with Remote, RAYHOME Scrolling Huge Bright Advertising LED Sign, Plastic Birds Dove Decoy Hunting Pigeon Decoy with Clip, Green Fabric (reclaimed), Doll House Curtains (reclaimed), INIU Power Bank, USB C in&out Slimmest 10000mAh Portable Charger, Hinge, Lotto Cards, Wire Magazine Rack (reclaimed)

“Homing was a four-month performance, relational, and research piece exploring ways of making place and home in my city of Toronto. Homing is centred around a corner store bike trailer, for feeding pigeons.

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homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
homing, or, pigeon store people city
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2024, OCAD University GradEx
Toronto, Ontario

Work by

Maddy Young

Sculpture/Installation

“So I’m just trying to figure out how one can live- how does one survive but also find home in a place like this. “They fly into buildings a lot and break their wings”, she says”