
Yes, AND. The wall just happens to be in Emily Dickinson's bedroom.
(The poet as a shy 16 year-old, December 1846, via)
The Story:
Uber-cool textile company Maharam commissioned artist Spencer Finch to travel to Dickinson's house in Massachusetts and use time-lapse photography to record the path of sunlight as it fell across the wallpaper in her room.
So this wallpaper is more than just wallpaper.
It's a historical document.
Over the years, Dickinson became more and more reclusive. By the end of her life, she lived in almost total isolation from the world. Her room was her refuge and her sanctuary.
So this wallpaper is more than just wallpaper.
It's a boundary line.
Within its confines, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems. To me, those golden triangles on the wall are a metaphor for the passage of time, a poetic record of all the hours and days and months and years she must have sat there writing.
So this wallpaper is more than just wallpaper.
It's an ode to the creative process.
(Digital wallpaper installation. Approximate dimensions 10 feet high by 16 feet wide.)
I dwell in possibility--
A fairer House than Prose--
More numerous of Windows--
Superior--for Doors--
Of Chambers as the Cedars--
Impregnable of Eye--
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky--
Of Visitors--the fairest--
For Occupation--This--
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise--
~Emily Dickinson, Poem 657
* * * * *
Editor's Note: If you have a minute or two, check out Maharam's lovely "Stories" section.
Contributions include Todd Oldham's vintage paper dolls, art by Maira Kalman, an animated film by Hella Jongorius, and much more.
Have a productive week.
x/Lisa
12 comments:
I absolutely adore Emily Dickinson! That wallpaper is so genius...
lovely-
Very interesting - thank you!
Simply marvelous and what a precious recorded document!
Simply marvelous and what a precious recorded document!
This is fantastic!
This both saddens & inspires me...imagine being voluntarily confined, yet so of the world in words...
Yes a productive week, I desperately need one of those.
Kelly
The Todd Oldham paper doll box made my day! Thank you!
I love Emily Dickinson, and damask wallpaper and love how you call it a border. I put a link to this blog on mine.
that was lovely! i did not know emily was more reclusive as she grew older. now i want to research more about her. joy to you, n
The little comprehensive extensive wide range and brighten comprehensive extensive wide range and drinks, amazing comprehensive extensive wide range and ashes. I believe that Buy GW2 Gold the "roll up, move up," the name has acquired encourage you Friends of the system, the procedure is not the same attention, which is the age of a love elegance. Number of DOTA activities as the globe position of the most well-known classes, flame a new pathway in many classes of DOTA online, is it exclusive. Collection of more than one wide range of figures, amazing Rune program, and by the exclusive DOTA map group element physician has done a very amazing idol capabilities and balance above. Have been individually outside in WAR3 environment, so the abilities effect is more amazing display and the acting is more enhanced. I think these are worth the DOTA activities like the kind of kid's shoes to try. Just picking out affiliates is very essential, more careful in theBuy Runescape Gold pit!
I would say it's simply a adorable work.
Social networking
Post a Comment