Register here for AIPAD TALKS: DEPTH OF FIELD with Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey on This Earthen Door, in conversation with AIPAD Member Rick Wester. Moderated by AIPAD Member Rick Wester, this Depth of Field features artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey in conversation on This Earthen Door.
Marchand and Sobsey developed a project rooted in Emily Dickinson’s botanical studies using anthotype, a plant-and light-based photographic process invented during Dickinson’s era. The exhibition presents a highly pigmented monochromatic re-imagining of the 66 pages of Dickinson’s herbarium, which contains over 400 different species.
As Marchand writes, “Like the time machine that is any herbarium, with its pressed specimens offering a slice of the past, This Earthen Door gives a glimpse into the nature-inspired world of the enigmatic, beloved poet nearly two centuries later – and asks, with today’s ‘plant invisibility’ and climate chaos, where may she point us?”