Hacking ED

Emily Dickinson is an odd quasi-aspirational figure that exemplifies U.S. ideals of a type of white hermetic individualism, an inviolable privacy around the domestic sphere. Under this shield, the accoutrements of femininity turn eccentric. I turn ED into various bots-- surveillance/security databases--with lots of gears and spy cameras, exploring the bunkers of U.S. interiority—by playing off the iconic portrait of the poet as a teenager. 

“She is my gross domestic product.”

—from “Smart Womb” in Daughter Isotope

Emily Dickinson Portrait Hack

The Bunker of American Interiority

Originally published in Interim Journal, this video recombines the iconic portrait of Emily Dickinson.