Polish multimedia artist Izabela Maciejewska presents a virtual room of Emily Dickinson, the famous nineteenth-century genius American poet.
The installation shows a private space - the bedroom study - of the "hermit of Amherst", where Emily Dickinson exiled herself for the last 20 years of her life and where she created her innovative and revolutionary in form poems. Having withdrawn from the world, she communicated by means of correspondence and through the crack of the bedroom door.
The room created by Izabela Maciejewska is an utopian place where reality mixes with fantasy, art with life, the outside world with the world inside the room, the world of the artist with the world of the viewer, where the boundaries of perception and imagination are blurred, often defying the principles of logic and physics. There is neither the continuity nor the linearity of time, nor the space limited by walls, nor the laws of gravity. The time indicated by the clock is moving backwards, space is stretched, objects levitate or change their place. And the walls, being their own mirror images, become transparent, and let the viewer to freely pass through them. The room "breathes" and "pulses" to the rhythm of the heartbeat, tilts diagonally and turs "upside down".
A journey into the Emily Dickinson's bedroom is the journey into the realm of imagination, the poetic "Palace of Opportunities", where nothing is surprising and anything can happen.
The installation Emily Dickinson's Room 2020 was made using advanced 3D rendering technology and then processed into 360-degree Virtual Reality. Video recordings of each wall were superimposed on a 3D spatial model. The film projection can be viewed both in a computer or smartphone window, as well as using VR glasses, which gives the illusion of being inside the room and looking around.
The digitized installation will be updated daily and supplemented with Emily Dickinson’s poems http://www.izabelamaciejewska.art.pl/emily-dickinsons-room-3eec.html
