[PHOTO] Scenes from Amalie Atkins, Three Minute Miracle

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One work I saw during my visits to the Confederation Centre's art gallery in Charlottetown that I thought merited a post of its own was Amalie Atkins's 2008 Three Minute Miracle.



Atkins, a Saskatchewan-based artist, created a substantial mixed-media installation arranged around a fantastical film 13 minutes that shows how "[a] girl with a giant cake goes to a place where all teeth ache." There is a film; there is a felt tent, containing a projector for the film and a screen and a stool for the audience and white gravel on the floor; there are even felt boots neatly arranged for viewers, so as to protect their feet.



Three Minute Miracle is wonderfully wacky. I approve of it.