cet-abime:everyonedies:mydarkenedeyes: Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous
cet-abime:everyonedies: mydarkenedeyes: Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009) This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin. AMAZING [id: four photos of coloured candles, organised in a spiral, in a white room. The first two photos show the whole exhibit, in which most of the candles are already burnt down to puddles of wax. The second two show some of the melted candles from a top down perspective. The melted wax of the different coloured candles are layered and mix in places.] -- source link
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