bid me to live Art Experience
Link to project: Bid Me to Live on Wordpress.
This was a creative response to course materials. It’s a multimedia project, the centerpiece of which is an interactive image where visitors can click around and explore the room featured at the end of Bid me to live. While the passages taken from Bid me to live remains relatively untouched, the Van Gogh painting appropriated as the interactive element had been digitally altered. There’s also a bit of coding involved in making the image interactive. Below is the artist statement I wrote for that class.
Artist statement:
Suspended in time and waiting to be turned over and over again in memory, surely the interactive image achieves part of the effect that H. D.’s novel did, had done, will do. Nonetheless, Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles was the place where he hoped to start a new community of artists, and as such it is saturated with regret and dreams unrealized, yes, but also with sentiment and with that boundless sense of freedom to create art. Julia’s room in Cornwall was not compared to Van Gogh’s Yellow House without reason, for it is where she will start thinking of cypress trees and writing like Van Gogh painted. /
This time I again adapt a fictional novel into some modern approximation that cannot possibly have been intended by the author. I think it’s called hypertext fiction, or multimedia project, but if you hover your mouse over various parts of the image, you can click on the links in the image, and you can experience parts of Bid me to live in a new and strange way. Like memories, some pages are harder to find than others, and some are brought to mind by ordinary objects and by association with other ordinary things.
This was a creative response to course materials. It’s a multimedia project, the centerpiece of which is an interactive image where visitors can click around and explore the room featured at the end of Bid me to live. While the passages taken from Bid me to live remains relatively untouched, the Van Gogh painting appropriated as the interactive element had been digitally altered. There’s also a bit of coding involved in making the image interactive. Below is the artist statement I wrote for that class.
Artist statement:
Suspended in time and waiting to be turned over and over again in memory, surely the interactive image achieves part of the effect that H. D.’s novel did, had done, will do. Nonetheless, Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles was the place where he hoped to start a new community of artists, and as such it is saturated with regret and dreams unrealized, yes, but also with sentiment and with that boundless sense of freedom to create art. Julia’s room in Cornwall was not compared to Van Gogh’s Yellow House without reason, for it is where she will start thinking of cypress trees and writing like Van Gogh painted. /
This time I again adapt a fictional novel into some modern approximation that cannot possibly have been intended by the author. I think it’s called hypertext fiction, or multimedia project, but if you hover your mouse over various parts of the image, you can click on the links in the image, and you can experience parts of Bid me to live in a new and strange way. Like memories, some pages are harder to find than others, and some are brought to mind by ordinary objects and by association with other ordinary things.