Vision Statement
Elisa Kay Sparks
Spring 1996
A computer composition, later rendered as a silkscreen, this image places Virginia Woolf into a matrix of images derived from her novel,
To the Lighthouse.
The basic design, drawn from a 1926 work by Georgia O'Keeffe entitled Spring, is meant to imitate the painting which Lucy finishes at the end of the book.
The image of Woolf herself is placed inside a triangular purple shape to suggest that we relate to her as Lucy relates to Mrs. Ramsey.
The house in the background is Tallyrand, the summer home in Cornwall which Woolf visited as a child.
Other images are of her father and of Lytton Strachey.
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