Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey - This Earthen Door

Name: Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey - This Earthen Door
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We can but follow to the Sun –
As oft as He goes down
He leaves Ourselves a Sphere behind –
‘Tis mostly – following –

We go no further with the Dust
Then to the Earthen Door –
And then the Panels are reversed –
And we behold – no more.

— Emily Dickinson (Fr 845)

This Earthen Door, a collaborative photography project between Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, reinterprets Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, a pressed plant sampler made as a teenager. A renowned and beloved American poet, Dickinson was better known as a gardener during her lifetime. Using digital film and the anthotype printing process, the artists have reimagined the original herbarium (housed by Harvard University) in the language of our time. Anthotypes are an early photographic sun-printing method that employs plant pigments as photographic emulsion. Drawing on the research and involvement of scientists and Dickinson scholars, this stunning project is ultimately a collaboration of poetry, science, nature, and light. The title, "This Earthen Door," comes from a Dickinson poem, “We can but follow to the Sun.” With reverence for the earth, like so much of Dickinson’s verse, it illustrates the moment an invisible door opens at the world's edge – just as one opens through the light of photography. The book follows the chronology of Dickinson's original 66-page herbarium, and an additional booklet includes a piece of handmade, wildflower seed paper as a plantable Dickinson's poem.

First Edition, 100 copies
2024
21 × 27 cm
128 pages
Hardcover / Swiss binding
ISBN 978-89-97605-62-0

Drawing • Photography • Poetry

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