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AIPAD Talks: Depth of Field with Amanda Marchand, Leah Sobsey and Rick Wester

Presenting AIPAD TALKS: DEPTH OF FIELD with Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey on This Earthen Door, moderated by AIPAD Member Rick Wester.

Marchand and Sobsey developed a project rooted in Emily Dickinson’s botanical studies using anthotype, a plant-and light-based photographic process invented during Dickinson’s era. The exhibition presents a highly pigmented monochromatic re-imagining of the 66 pages of Dickinson’s herbarium, which contains over 400 different species.

As Marchand writes, “Like the time machine that is any herbarium, with its pressed specimens offering a slice of the past, This Earthen Door gives a glimpse into the nature-inspired world of the enigmatic, beloved poet nearly two centuries later – and asks, with today’s ‘plant invisibility’ and climate chaos, where may she point us?”