A Blue Bird’s Tune
A Blue Bird’s Tune is a series inspired by Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems. The work centers on three themes deeply tied to her life and writing: danger, death, and madness. Comprising fourteen shadow boxes, the series stages fragments of selected text in personal dialogue with a constellation of found objects, such as a pencil, a butterfly corpse, braided strands of my own hair, a broken plate, pearls, a key, an envelope, a mirror, and more.
Each object, marked by traces of life, becomes the embodiment of a materialized idea, a psychological state, or an intimate portrait. Together, they construct a poetic space where Dickinson’s words intertwine with memory, matter, and metaphor to generate new meaning.