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The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
- from "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In the alley behind/beside Zebra Color Lab where I get all my 120 film developed, is this brick wall with an old antique couch in front of it. I have always been fascinated by this couch, it's beautiful in its ruination and age but I never snapped a single picture of it until February 2009 on a bleak, rainy day. It reminded me of "The Yellow Wallpaper" that I had read in one of my earlier college literature classes. I think it is fitting that tomorrow, when I go to drop off more film at Zebra, that I revisit The Yellow Couch around the same time I first photographed it last year and take another photograph this year. If it is still there...
For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow.
But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.
Yellow Wallpaper inspired, even though this wallpaper is pretty much the complete opposite of that described in Gilman's story. This wallpaper is vibrant and has a great pattern that isn't confusing and it's not very yellow and, despite the ceilings in this damn house, isn't crumbling.
Guess the original! Which famous short story is this?
Solution in comments.
"By moonlight--the moon shines in all night when there is a moon--I wouldn't know it was the same paper.
At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.
I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman."
Free Texture by powerpuffjazz.deviantart.com/art/Vintage-Grunge-Texture-1..
On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind. The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.
Inspired by the short story by the same title. If you haven't read it, you should. But here's a Wikipedia page that gives the gist of it's genius.
Happy Halloween! This isn't anything I'm too proud of or anything, I just haven't posted in eons. I've been busy traveling and getting stuff done for midterms. I have at least six folders of pictures to edit and some of them should make their way on here over my holiday next week. Missing you all, flickrbugs.
I shouldn't have to say this, but push L. Please.
“Most men’s eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.”
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My little tribute to The Yellow Wallpaper. Really good early late 19th century feminist author... not a fan of her interest in eugenics, but other than that she was pretty awesome.
Being in this house was definitely strange; especially after walking into this room and seeing that it was a child's room...quite possibly a baby's room. I loved the yellow walls though. I think that I may re-read the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" now; it has always been one of my favorites.[spring '11]
Really, though, if I wanted a true "madness of Ophelia" thing going, I'd have the flower floating in brackish water, a drowned bloom.
Of course, at least I'm conveying the "deflowered" angle, right? Am I right? This guy over here knows what I'm talking about.
Ophelia is interesting to me because, while she remains a complex and sympathetic character, she's emblematic of the dismissiveness of the male species: a woman showing emotions? Well, crap, she must be bonkers. Wait, all women are bonkers! Look at her torn gown! Her disheveled hair! Her distant stare! She either just had crazy bathroom sex, or she's maaaad, you see, maaaaaad!
This particular attitude is further emboldened by a short story like "The Yellow Wallpaper." Yes, on the one hand, that story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is held aloft by feminists, as the story could be said to show the state of a repressed woman's mind -- when The Man keeps The Woman boxed up and pinned down, she's likely to descend into madness and turn into a real spacebat. On the other hand, it suggests that women are simply not strong enough to persevere, and instead are fully subject to the whims of man and the lunacies that result. I can see both perspectives, but the fact that she basically turns into a howling moon-monkey by the end, escaping her room but becoming "trapped" in the mental labyrinthe of the peeled-away yellow wallpaper, remains something of an unfortunate indictment against women.
Yellow is also thought of as a literary symbol for "I'm totally freaking nuts."
Which I can believe. Anytime I see a banana, I soil my pants and start drawing on the wall in magic marker.
Wow, this entry really just jumped the rails, didn't it? Flowers to Shakespeare to Maybe-Feminist-Short-Story-Dissection to Banana-Caused Diaper Changes.
I'm just going to tip-toe away, now.
(EDIT: Keep in mind, my point is actually pro-ladies. I'm saying that women are strong, and aren't fragile little glass butterflies; pressing them won't force them to drown themselves or peel away the yellow wallpaper until their minds are totally lost. )
Autumn memento mori photoshoot. Graphic novel available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087RSX3V9?&linkCode=sl1&am...
The cover of the book I made illustrating Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper.
.... as in the story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
You can read the story here:
www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/wallpaper....
I made a mold of my face with plastic strips, then attached the face to a canvas with glue and more plaster. I sculpted the face a little, then sketched and painted a Victorian wallpaper design over the entire thing. I recently read "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the story, a turn-of-the-century woman suffering from post postpartum depression is isolated by her well meaning husband, causing her to go mad and imagine women roaming behind the walls of her confinement.
Autumn memento mori photoshoot. Graphic novel available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087RSX3V9?&linkCode=sl1&am...
This was taken on the first day of shooting the filmed stage adaptation of "The Yellow Wallpaper". It was in incredible experience with an amazing group of people.
Performing an exceprt from their show on one of the Virgin Money free stages on the Royal Mile. I think this was from "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Performing an exceprt from their show on one of the Virgin Money free stages on the Royal Mile. I think this was from "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
Found this at the Bookfest and it seemed perfect. I'm obsessed with the circus lately and have been wanting to read some Angela Carter for a while. Haven't gotten too far, but what I have read I love. The main character is a cockney trapeze artist...with wings. Her name is Fevvers. I love it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Finally got this off ebay this week, have been wanting to read it for so long, heard so many good things.