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The Classicist

This is the main tumblog of Silvie Kilgallon. I'm a conceptual artist and my work is largely influenced by my academic interests in classics, ancient history, translation, and philosophy of language. This blog details conceptual, casual and personal projects on which I am currently working. To see the Stitched Iliad project, please check out the Stitched Iliad blog below.

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QR Sampler Update. Letters A-D. Detail Of C & D. C Was So Incredibly Time Consuming. It Would Take A

QR Sampler Update. Letters A-D. Detail Of C & D. C Was So Incredibly Time Consuming. It Would Take A
QR Sampler Update. Letters A-D. Detail Of C & D. C Was So Incredibly Time Consuming. It Would Take A

QR sampler update. Letters A-D. Detail of C & D. C was so incredibly time consuming. It would take a lot to convince me I needed to do that again.

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This Represents About Five Hours Work. It's Not The Sewing That Takes So Much Time, But The Jumping Around,

This represents about five hours work. It's not the sewing that takes so much time, but the jumping around, finding the next spot, occasionally undoing, realising you've forgotten a solitary N somewhere and finding the thread out again just to fill in that one letter. This is just under half of the planned piece. It's William Blake's 'The Divine Image'.


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12 years ago
This Is Something I Made A Few Months Ago Now, Whilst Procrastinating And Avoiding Other Projects. I

This is something I made a few months ago now, whilst procrastinating and avoiding other projects. I guess it's a combination of my Iliad project, and another piece I was working on - The Text Gazes Back (of which there are photos on my website: www.theclassicist.co.uk).

It's the emotional states of characters throughout book one, represented by emoticons. Every row represents a different scene.


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12 years ago

And of course this is the other thing I spent my weekend working on. I'm about 25% done. Book 2 is the longest book of the Iliad, at 877 lines. I'm around line 220.

I'm working on this book a lot more slowly than I did book 1. But I wasn't also working for a PhD when I did book 1. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

I'm hoping I can finish this whole project at around the same time I finish my PhD, which gives me 3-4 years more.

Day 37.

Day 37.


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