four rooms of One’s Own
 
left After slipping off the title band, the portfolio opens to reveal the booklet below The booklet (pictured before the drawing is in place) with each ‘room’ expressed according to its level of publicness/intimacy (see notes below).



An original text by the artist explores the Hindu proverb that says we are each like a house with four rooms: emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual. Four Rooms of One’s Own takes the form of a varied-fold accordion book, with the individual rooms each assuming a different color and unfolding in a unique way that reveals its degree of publicness/intimacy. The booklet can be either viewed like a traditional book or removed from the portfolio-style cover and positioned in a number of shapes—a star, four distinct and equal rooms, a single room—or expanded to fully display the original drawing on the back. Drawn on lightweight Rives, the 40″ wide illustration features objects related to the activities of each ‘room’; relevant quotes printed onto creamy vellum are interspersed among the items.

2) The Physical Room (red) is a semi-public room, and therefore fully visible, but less ‘open’ than the Emotional Room.
4) The Intellectual Room (orange) is a semi-private room, and is expressed as more ‘closed’ than the previous two.
3) The Spiritual Room (purple) is the most intimate room, and is represented as fully closed.
1) The Emotional/Social Room (green) is the most public, and is turned ‘inside out’ to reflect this.
left & below Two views of the illustration on the back of the booklet (featuring symbols of the activities associated with each room).
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Media  

Mixed papers:

Cover ~ marbled paper by a local artisan;

Booklet ~ various colors of Canson Mi-Teintes

backed with lightweight Rives

This collage shows the booklet’s pages arranged to express the level of publicness/intimacy (similar to the annotated photo toward the top of the page).
The endpapers of the portfolio feature an introduction about the four rooms; a collage shows the booklet’s pages arranged as four equal rooms.

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Four Rooms appeared at the Abecedarian Gallery

in an exhibition entitled Interior Markings

[2 July through 7 August 2010]


Four Rooms was also chosen by the Susan Hensel Gallery

for the exhibition Longing for Home

[16 March through 26 April 2012]


Dimensions

8 ¼ x 8 ½ x ¾″ portfolio-style cover

with a removable interior booklet

that expands to 40″ wide


Above   Items representing the spiritual  realm}


Left   Items representing the intellectual  realm}


Right   Items representing the physical  realm


Below   Items representing the emotional/social  realm


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