Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

Success in Circuit lies

Too bright for our infirm Delight

The Truth's superb surprise

As Lightning to the Children eased

With explanation kind

The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind —

– Emily Dickinson

From The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)

Mixed media and audio installation, in collaboration with Ishika Goshwami

3d printed and slipcast porcelain 'penny ink' bottles, oxides, vintage oak museum cabinet, 22ct gold lustre
66 x 45 x 15cm

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”

― Emily Dickinson