S. Billie Mandle
Circumference

S. Billie Mandle, Circumference

Contemporary artist S. Billie Mandle’s Circumference work reflects depictions of the light in Emily Dickinson’s bedroom. Mandle returned time and again to this space of creativity, not out of an effort "to replicate what Dickinson might have seen, but rather to convey a space that invited a deep concentration. This small corner led to expansive poetry," says Mandle.

This work is a meditation on how deep and vast journeys can be made within the space of one’s own mind. These are mysterious and charged scenes. Framing aids us our ability to identify this as the same physical place, yes, though certainly not the same emotional or psychological one. Mandle’s work is able to present so cleanly how the variance in atmosphere played by the trick of light is but a launch-point for the plethora of distinction we could divine from this singular spot. That nothing is ever the same twice is an understatement worthy of repeating. Indeed, through the act of repetition Mandle’s Circumference lifts the veil on expansiveness despite confinement in a time we need remember it most. The tension between claustrophobia and expansion knocks at all our doors today. Through this work Mandle tries "to call to mind the limitation of language, of images, and of what we can know. I called the project Circumference, because it was a concept Dickinson relied on frequently in her writings; she used the word to evoke the boundary between the visible and invisible, the known and unknown."

S. Billie Mandle - Circumference

Each life converges to some centre 4
Light is sufficient to itself 7
Expanse cannot be lost 1

Circumference Price-Structure:
24 x 20 in. pigment print | Edition of 3 | $1,800
40 x 32 in. pigment print | Edition of 2 | $2,800

S. Billie Mandle was recommended for inclusion in You and Yours by Guillermo Srodek-Hart