wood, paint, C print
81 x 108 x 29 inches

The Angle of a Landscape was built for the exhibition “Emily Dickinson Rendered” at Wave HIll. In a public place the work provides a screen for a private desk overlooking the landscape.

In her biography of Dickinson Cynthia Griffin Wolff finds Dickinson disagrees with 19th century Christianity’s view of nature as a sign or reminder of God’s promise of redemption/resurrection. Dickinson saw rather a cycle of seasons behind which lay only the unstirring skeleton of the land. In the poem The Angle of a Landscape:
“The Seasons – shift…..
…….- and the Hill –
And just the Steeple’s finger –
These – never stir at all”

The eighteenth century styling of the 1927 Glyndor Gallery building whilst proposing eighteenth century refinement instead ushered in colonial vinyl. My work takes its proportions from those of the gallery, but turns to the 1927 design sense of De Stijl, and their look at traditional Japanese architecture. The painted front screens the bare structure behind.