Self Portrait with Poetry by Emily Dickinson
‘And then the windows failed’, is a continuing series of self-portraits uniting photography with the written word.
The influence being several women writers whose have had a significant, emotional impact on me. In this series, I am looking at poetry written by Emily Dickinson. I use the ‘window’ to link the intimate relationship in the two dimensional visual sense, to the multi-dimensional emotional sense of seeing and perceiving.
Whilst we view the outside world through the window, it is existing outside of ourselves and
yet we have only a psychological representation of it inside our self.
Living Stories, as part of Bound by the Book, group exhibition
In this current series the existence of hard copies of books
transcend all ages, and the impact of the
digital era is as yet unseen here.
This is much like the older forms of photography surviving and being seen as
different and
elegant compared to the new digital technologies accessible to
all of us.
Reflected Reading, Selected passages from the novel 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath
My first reading of the Bell Jar cannot be remembered
within a time frame, only in the memory
of the words of intimacy, beauty, and
of the semi-autobiographical nature of the book.
From present experiences memories of the passages, came to
mind and then the possibility of
setting visual examples of the evocative
words.
The mood and emotions of the Bell Jar are intertwined
with the subtle shading of natural light,
encouraging different ways of
interpreting each image.
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