name
sara marie blakely (smbsmb)
country
united states
university
University of Michigan
department
Integrated Design
university address
2000 Bonisteel
48109 Ann Arbor
university country
united states
url
id
0001919
title
Finn/Wake
professor(s)
R.D. Overmyer
rank
-
tags
year of making
2008
uploaded
2009-02-16 02:02:39
As a typographic installation, "Finn/Wake" reconstructs a night-dream-series text from James Joyce's novel: Finnegans Wake. Where Ulysses was Joyce's book of the day, Finnegans Wake is his book of the night, of the dark. Joyce purposely obscures what our eyes see by blurring over 17 different languages. In this installation, physical shape sculpts Joyce's murmurings with black text mounted on a black wall. Painted as a night-time landscape where language and vision are never fully discernible, the viewer experiences a moment of Joyce's word play, outside of the page.
Materials: masonite, wood, paper, mounted with insect needles.