Locks of Hair and Polar explorers

ArtCal announces the upcoming exhibition 3 Rooms - Cornelia Parker, Massimo Bartolini, Dario Robleto (05 January 2008 – 09 February 2008) in the D'Amelio Terras Gallery (New York). Cornelia Parker's works are from her Brontëan Abstracts collection:

Cornelia Parker’s work often deals with deconstruction of monuments, be it people or places. The photographic works on view are from her series “Brontëan Abstracts” in which she examines the mythology surrounding the Brontë sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily. Parker uses an electron microscope to scan artifacts and objects owned by the Brontës such as a lock of hair, a quill pen, a needle. The magnification both abstracts them and reveals their essence. Other photographs focus on both the conscious and subconscious marks left by the sisters — such as ink blots on the lined paper, deletions from the original manuscripts and holes in the pincushion.

Picture: Cornelia Parker Brontëan Abstract (Emily Brontë’s hair) 2006 13 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (35 x 30 cm)framed: 21 1/2 x 20 inches (54.6 x 50.8 cm) SEM image printed as Bromide BW print on fibre based paperEdition 1/5 with 2 AP’s. Source.

L.A. City Beat talks about the Northwest Passage Artic Franklin's expedition (1845-48) and the Brontës' fascination with Polar explorers is quoted:

Franklin’s lead-poisoned, murderous, and ultimately frozen-to-death 1840s voyage will be the subject of the Velaslavasay Panorama’s “An Evening of Arctic Novelty” on Thursday and Friday nights. The program will feature a lecture about the Franklin Expedition by Arctic historian Dr. Russell Potter – but it won’t be any old lecture. (...)
The saga was so drawn out that it captured even the imaginations of popular writers. “Dickens, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters were big on polar explorers,” says Potter, who also mentions that Charles Dickens himself mounted panoramas on the fate of Franklin’s crew. (Alfred Lee)

Finally, this Russian blog comments Jane Eyre 2006 in Russian.

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