The Complaint (selected works)
Christy Sheffield Sanford
Christy Sheffield Sanford
"Still Life" by Earl Horter; watercolor; 15 x 18 1⁄2 in.; 1939; open source from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
About the Author
Christy Sheffield Sanford is an artist-writer living in St. Augustine, FL. She has won an NEA in Poetry and is the author of numerous mixed genre and multi-disciplinary works. Her animation "Squid Tentacles on a Plate" was recently published by Hole in the Head Review. The Ekphrastic Review published a collaborative art-music-poetry video "Birds of a Feather." Sanford was a "Platforms and Narratives" panelist participant for the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) Conference in May.
About the Work
The piece has much to to with a 2015 scandal at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As owner of Monet’s “La Japonaise” a portrait of Claude’s wife Camille, the museum hosted Kimono Wednesdays. Art lovers donned a replica and posed before the painting. Irate protestors appeared carrying signs: Exoticism, Racism, Appropriation, Imperialism, and Murder. To meditate on Monet and cultural appropriation, I manipulated 1600s kimonos from Boston Museum’s book collection. I wrote about Claude, Camille, and Japonisme and responded to images of my own, creating a reflexive ekphrastic form. I want the two disciplines art and writing in some manner to spar, dance, entwine, interact.
About the Author's Process
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Christy Sheffield Sanford is an artist-writer living in St. Augustine, FL. She has won an NEA in Poetry and is the author of numerous mixed genre and multi-disciplinary works. Her animation "Squid Tentacles on a Plate" was recently published by Hole in the Head Review. The Ekphrastic Review published a collaborative art-music-poetry video "Birds of a Feather." Sanford was a "Platforms and Narratives" panelist participant for the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) Conference in May.
About the Work
The piece has much to to with a 2015 scandal at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. As owner of Monet’s “La Japonaise” a portrait of Claude’s wife Camille, the museum hosted Kimono Wednesdays. Art lovers donned a replica and posed before the painting. Irate protestors appeared carrying signs: Exoticism, Racism, Appropriation, Imperialism, and Murder. To meditate on Monet and cultural appropriation, I manipulated 1600s kimonos from Boston Museum’s book collection. I wrote about Claude, Camille, and Japonisme and responded to images of my own, creating a reflexive ekphrastic form. I want the two disciplines art and writing in some manner to spar, dance, entwine, interact.
About the Author's Process
TEXT ME
