MsHERESIES #4: DAFFODILS — Rosalind Belben by Rietlanden Women’s Office
with an introduction by RWO + special window display on view all week
Thursday February 10, 8pmWe most of us see daffodils as smiling, the colour of the sun, they’re crying, they have bulbs, what’s more, hidden in darkness that poison, we all do, it seems I though no daffodil have a dormant poison that sends sly white things into my earth, my bulb has a spring strength, we human beings are a crowd of naughty bulbs.
‘Daffodils’ is typeset alongside a collage of material from two medieval manuscripts: Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae and De natura rerum (circa 1130–74), which was illuminated and transcribed by a group of eight nuns at the abbey of Munsterbilzen in Maastricht; and the so called Claricia Psalter (late 12th–early 13th century) from the abbey of saints Ulrich and Afra in Augsberg, also made by a group of nuns and named after the novice Claricia who is believed to have drawn herself hanging like the tail of a drop-cap Q in the psalter section of the book.
MsHeresies is an inquiry into collaborative graphic design practices and the ornamental as a form of work critique. It is made by Elisabeth Rafstedt and Johanna Ehde, cofounders of the graphic design collective Rietlanden Women’s Office.
