https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/8147a32b2dda1246a0e92f1e918123d7.jpg 747a65bebea5c3ddc62d3fe086de378a https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/b1f3a83d3a1ee3cb3a0be6ad3f9e5efd.jpg 2bcd4d0b1a55c813914bdc9fb1ba4dbd Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Ink on paper Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 22 x 30 inches Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Relation A related resource 2012-2013 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2013.1.7 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alice Attie Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the artist Description An account of the resource This artwork draws its title and subject matter from American author William Faulkner’s 1930 novel <em>As I Lay Dying</em>. Alice Attie made this ink drawing of a coffin by copying lines of Faulkner’s prose in a miniscule script. Depending on the spacing and direction of Attie’s writing, Faulkner’s words lose their legibility and instead take the shape of shadowed volumes, wood-grain textures, and hard, angular contours. The coffin is an object central to Faulkner’s story, and Attie’s mode of drawing with text deepens this connection to her source material. With meandering forms, she seems to meditate on the stream-of-consciousness technique of writing for which Faulkner is well known and, with the relative density of the text on each facet of the coffin, she nods to the novel’s multiple narrators.