The YELLOW WALLPAPER

This is A SERIES IN PROGRESS CREATED AT THE BURREN COLLEGE OF ART.

This work is created by using light sensative pigments that react to blue/black light.

The drawings mimic women in poses often associated with Saints of the Catholic Church who were martyred in the name of their outspoken beliefs.

The work is fueled by the current debate over women’s bodies and voices. Labeled as ‘difficult’ or ‘arrogant’ a woman’s opinion is often used as a means to condemn her beliefs and opinions.

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This work is in the public domain and can be read via the link above.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature for its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century. It is also lauded as an excellent work of horror fiction.

The story is written as a collection of journal entries narrated in the first person. The story begins with the husband (and narrators physician) confining the woman to an upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the husband forbids the journal writer from working or writing, and encourages her to eat well and get plenty of air so that she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a common diagnosis in women at the time.

As the reader continues through the journal entries, they experience the writer's gradual descent into madness with nothing better to do than observe the peeling yellow wallpaper in her room.

the yellow wallpaper
by charlotte perkins gilman

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