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The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling The Collaborative Spirit(S), Shannon Davis, Joel Minor
The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling The Collaborative Spirit(S), Shannon Davis, Joel Minor
University Libraries Presentations
The James Merrill Digital Archive, comprised of Merrill’s poetry drafts, typescripts, and Ouija board session transcripts, is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive. - Shannon Davis, Digital Projects Librarian, and Joel Minor, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
In Pursuit Of Distant Horizons, Whitney Polich
In Pursuit Of Distant Horizons, Whitney Polich
Graduate School of Art Theses
Our lasting human desire to rationalize the phenomena of nature manifests as ceaseless attempts to fix fluid landscapes within the rigid boundaries of an image. Each landscape with its own physical language, rooted in the temporal and subjective particularities of sense—taste, touch, smell, sound, and sight—requires a lived immersion to be read and as such, eludes static interpretation or expression. The physical horizon provides both a physical and metaphorical reminder of the limits we constantly find ourselves confronted with—those limits of perception, language, and knowledge—as we seek to expresses the immediate experience and profound vastness of a world far exceeding …
Making It Harder Than It Has To Be Or This Is The Sculpture Or *Sigh, Todd Barry
Making It Harder Than It Has To Be Or This Is The Sculpture Or *Sigh, Todd Barry
Undergraduate Theses—Unrestricted
You will be punched in the face and then poked in the side
(it seems, someone, has something, to say)
You start off with a slow looking-back – making a steady assumption
You take that assumption, o p e n it up ~ into elaboration, and sing the thing
RIGHT ON out of itself
You sculpt
You step back
You say, ‘wait a minute – relax’
You wake up, wiggle toes, wait for [something], move, make~ into
[something], and stand by it
You laugh, get grounded, fight your way outside, come
back, and take care of things
You feel, in …