Human Characteristics of an Object
Women’s garments James Joyce seemed to find as exciting as their bodies. ‘Material On The Head’ and ‘My Love Wears Light Attire’ are self-portraits. I wear a kitchen mop head on my head and an old reclaimed bedroom lampshade like a hat or garment. Why do you wear these cursed things? Joyce would ask Nora when she went to bed in her corset. Please take off that breastplate as I do not like embracing a letterbox1 The wearing of domestic objects is playful. The wearing of a corset was compulsory. Different rules for different times. The objects morph into my head taking over my identity. They inhabit the position of my face. I am living in them it seems. Like Nora’s corset, the domestic sphere restricts the body. The corset was of her time. The domestic is mine. The kitchen mop and the lampshade now an identity in their own right are cursed things. Functional. Forever there.
1JJ to NB July 12th 1904 II, 43-44
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Women’s garments James Joyce seemed to find as exciting as their bodies. ‘Material On The Head’ and ‘My Love Wears Light Attire’ are self-portraits. I wear a kitchen mop head on my head and an old reclaimed bedroom lampshade like a hat or garment. Why do you wear these cursed things? Joyce would ask Nora when she went to bed in her corset. Please take off that breastplate as I do not like embracing a letterbox1 The wearing of domestic objects is playful. The wearing of a corset was compulsory. Different rules for different times. The objects morph into my head taking over my identity. They inhabit the position of my face. I am living in them it seems. Like Nora’s corset, the domestic sphere restricts the body. The corset was of her time. The domestic is mine. The kitchen mop and the lampshade now an identity in their own right are cursed things. Functional. Forever there.
1JJ to NB July 12th 1904 II, 43-44
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The Morphing Feminine, a visual artists' response/reaction to -and possibly- re-reading of- various aspects of the feminine in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses and in the author's life. I wrote this te This art exhibition is part of this year's Bloomsday Festival at The Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1, Ireland. The show will run from the 17th of June until the 20th of July, 2020 by appointment.
