Danae Brissonnet, 30 years, participates in the 10e edition of the Mural festival in Montreal. His work took shape under the lens of Valérian Mazataud. It can now be admired at 4355Saint-Laurent Blvd.
Describe the mural you have decided to create.
I wanted to represent a creature, a kind of articulated monster. The main element is a large face composed of several elements of nature: monarchs, roosters, storks, birds, echinacea. […] The idea was to make an interactive mural, therefore animated with rotating puppets. […] I really wanted people to come into my fantasy world, to be able to interact with the mural.
What message did you want to convey through this work?
I made this mural with the theme of digestion in mind. Not just food. The digestion of ideas, emotions, passages in our lives, traumas… At the moment, we live too quickly without ever having time to digest the information of all kinds that comes to us. I wanted to talk about all this with humor and derision.
How did you become a muralist?
Initially, I was a puppeteer. Doing murals came later. I started during my travels ten years ago: I was doing murals in small villages in Nicaragua with children, where they don’t really have access to art. And I continued in other countries, like Mexico, Colombia, Mali, India, Morocco, and here too.
What main challenges do you face when creating a mural?
As I improvise all the time — even if I always have an initial idea — every day, the mural takes on different shapes, different colors, but it doesn’t always work. Sometimes I have to erase, because in the end it wasn’t where I wanted to go, then I start over. It can be exhausting.