Image | Mirage
University of Oxford
Oxford, England
September 2017
"Image | Mirage" was a "writing on water" installation created in conjunction with the 2017 Oxford University
conference "Power of the Word," at which a variation of the essay below was presented:
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Stéphane Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves"
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Jan. 2020). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
conference "Power of the Word," at which a variation of the essay below was presented:
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Stéphane Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves"
Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Jan. 2020). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
Pages from the Magazine Placed on the Benches Surrounding the Oxford Pond
"The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, yielding his initiative to words, which are mobilized by
the shock of their difference; they light up with reciprocal reflections like a virtual stream of fireworks over jewels,
restoring perceptible breath to the former lyric impulse, or the enthusiastic personal directing of the sentence."
— from Stéphane Mallarmé's "Crisis in Poetry"
the shock of their difference; they light up with reciprocal reflections like a virtual stream of fireworks over jewels,
restoring perceptible breath to the former lyric impulse, or the enthusiastic personal directing of the sentence."
— from Stéphane Mallarmé's "Crisis in Poetry"
Writing on Water Installation (and De-Installation)
BBC Radio Oxford Interview, on the Oxford Installation "Image | Mirage," on "The Cat Orman Show," September 15, 2017
Many thanks to Carolyn Brass & Jefree Shalev for their invaluable assistance with this installation,
and to Nick Baldwin of the Oxford University Parks Department.
and to Nick Baldwin of the Oxford University Parks Department.
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