Day 81.

Day 81.

Someone just drew my attention to this, which I missed before.

These are works in progress of a fellow artist and classicist, Sam. I love her work. My own work seeks to obscure the original classical texts to leave only an aesthetic object, it overlays the original text with the stories of it's translation and reception. Sam's work inhabits the text, blurs the boundary between narrator, translator, artist, and character, and brings a sense of grim reality to the myths. What could Philomel say to Procne to tell her what had happened? How she felt? Sam's work gives a voice to these largely silent women who have been abused both by the narrative, and by society's treatment of their narrative. These fictional women, who represent the stories of so many real women, and their ignored lives. tl;dr: this is all kinds of awesome.

Differences achieved by slipping knitwise/purlwise for an SSK decrease, for anyone who has ever wondered. Top left is traditional SSK - both stitches slipped knitwise. Top right is SSK with both stitches slipped purlwise. Bottom left is first stitch slipped purlwise and second slipped knitwise. Bottom right is first stitch slipped knitwise and second slipped purlwise. You can see that the traditional SSK gives the smoothest line. But that might not always be the best style for a pattern. If you're working something that emphasises corners and angles, try one of the other three. SSK with knitwise then purlwise completely hides the second stitch being decreased so it gives a simple step pattern in the decrease. The other two allow a leg of the second stitch to show through so could work with designs where you want to emphasise complexity or a 2-1 rib design, etc.

delightedbeauty.org

Shakespeare translation research project. Multilingual translations - all languages - all periods. Othello: case study, pilot project. Data visualisations.

Note also the project mentioned half-way down the page about translating the specific couplets. 

This conference is p awesome, so many amazing projects I’m learning about.

This is another WIP from fellow artist Sam, and I just want to say: THIS. So much this. Every article I've read about the Prometheus Bound which argues that Zeus isn't a big bad points to this "gentle touch" that impregnates Io as if it's a good thing. Like, "well it's not rape because it's just a touch, a sort of immaculate conception so we don't even have to worry about consent at all." I'm working a bit on the Prometheus Bound right now as one of the only sources outside Hesiod that mentions Kratos and Bie (two of the children of Styx) and I'd been sending Sam problematic extracts from what I'd been reading, and then she just produces this: this beautiful, succinct piece of art that is this fantastic rebuttal to all these stupid articles I've been reading. And it's just. The. Best. Thing. Ever.