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Monarch Vector is a poetic reflexion on flight and the fragility of frontiers, real or imagined, inspired from a true-life adventure while following the path of the monarch butterflies’ migration over North America.

Monarch Vector is a dossier that was inspired by multidisciplinary artists Patrick Beaulieu and Daniel Canty who piloted the Monarca Mobile--a modified 1978 postal truck incorporating a portable art gallery. They travelled over thirty-four days to follow, by way of land, the aerial path of the monarch butterflies’ migration over North America.

Monarch Vector is a poetic reflexion on flight and the fragility of frontiers, real or imagined, inspired from a true-life adventure.

Check out the beautiful and engaging Vector Monarca Web project.... inspired by this journey.

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Monarch Vector

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Contributed by Patrick Beaulieu

Length: 3 min 27 sec

License: Attribution (by)

Year of Production: 2008

Director:

Patrick Beaulieu

Producer:

Patrick Beaulieu

Monarch Vector project is a poetic reflection on flight and the fragility of frontiers, real or imagined, inspired from a true-life adventure.

Over thirty-four days in October and November of 2007, multidisciplinary artists Patrick Beaulieu and Daniel Canty piloted the Monarca Mobile, a modified 1978 postal truck incorporating a portable art gallery. In this archaic vehicle, at once lumbering and delicate, they followed, by way of land, the aerial path of the monarch butterflies’ migration over North America.

Their travels led them from Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, across the United States and to the province of Michoacán, México, into the mountains where the monarchs gather by the millions every year around the Day of the Dead. Purhépecha community of this area believe that the monarch bring back the souls of their deceased for this celebration of the Day of the Dead... www.vectormonarca.com