Cotton and silk thread on cotton batting backed with muslin. 6 ft h x 8 ft w.
Cotton and silk thread on cotton batting backed with muslin.
Jen Bervin, I am certain I haven't seen anything quite this wonderful in quite a while. Then again, I am a Dickinson lover from way back. I quote:
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Emily Dickinson avoided publication, calling it “the auction of the mind,” but penned nearly 1700 poems in her lifetime. Readers are familiar with her characteristic dashes, but fewer have seen her equally ubiquitous crosses (+ marks) or the variant words to which they correspond because they are rarely reflected in print editions.
The variant words are preceeded by the + mark and often appear listed in clusters after the poem but before the horizontal line Dickinson drew to signal the end of a poem. To read the variants, you move backwards through the poem trying to find the point of insertion, the corollary word or phrase (preceeded by a +) that the variants refer to in the poem. They are sometimes quite close in meaning to the marked word, but in other instances, they are as far ranging as "+ world, + selves + sun."
The Composite Marks of Fascicle 16. 6 feet high x 8 feet wide.
Cotton and silk thread on cotton batting backed with muslin.
More after break.
