Bye Bye Baby (2021)

Bye Bye Baby is a transdisciplinary collaboration between Danqi Cai, a First-Year MFA student in Printmaking, and Ida Mullaart, a Second-Year Ph.D. student in Philosophy. Through prints, animations, a giveaway zine, and a dialogue, the collaborators reflect on procreative ethics and the communicative power of art and philosophy.

Bye Bye Baby: Installation Views | Bye Bye Baby: The Prints | Bye Bye Baby: The Animations | Bye Bye Baby: The Zine | Bye Bye Baby: The Dialogue

Legacy & Inheritance
Immersive installation of five print-based animations
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These five print-based animations show silhouettes of playing children layer upon each other on five sheets of paper. Each figure leaves only a thin layer of dust, just as each of us leaves our carbon footprints. However, as the figures increase in number, their imprints morph into an unrecognizable overcast of foreboding black clouds. With the animations projected large onto the wall, this immersive installation confronts the audience with the legacy of exacerbating global warming that we leave behind with each new life we bring into existence and asks the viewer how they would position themselves among such ominous inheritance.