Bright Wings Process – A Hidden Story
Bright Wings is a three-part work that engages with text from the first two lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem God’s Grandeur. The first piece in the triptych uses white thread, the second uses scorch marks, and the third uses genuine gold leaf. The typeface that forms the letters of the text is...
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Interfaces
2026
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Bright Wings is a three-part work that engages with text from the first two lines of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem God’s Grandeur. The first piece in the triptych uses white thread, the second uses scorch marks, and the third uses genuine gold leaf. The typeface that forms the letters of the text is based on William Morris’ Golden Type created in 1890, the year after Hopkins’s death. The use of both this poem and Morris’ type represents an engagement with Victorian aesthetic and ecological co... |
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