Esmé Stribling-Hough Journal Post 1

  

Recognizing my notoriously small handwriting, here is an excerpt:

"I am certainly thinking about Emily Dickinson (our most recent subject) differently. She spent a large portion of her life as a recluse, confined to her parents' house and property and often, the copious amount of domestic labor needed to run it properly. I am much more interested in her ability to analyze the small inner workings of her home and expand them to reflect on the larger issues of her day. ... I'm a word oriented creative, so I was trying to find some repetitive visual I could use to represent this collection of entries, and I stumbled on this stamp of an ordinary jar. It's an incredible symbol of domesticity (Dickinson might have spent quite a bit of time preserving fresh foods pre-refrigeration), but it also has the excellent quality of existing as empty, fillable space [for future entries]."