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A series of photographs of recurring items of detritus in an ornamental pond on a university campus, viewed as "revenants" or returning ghosts.
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The RevenantsPhotographs copyright Mike Chisholm 2007
Quotation on p.59 from Ovid’s Metamorphoses,translated by A.D. Melville (OUP, 1987)
by permission of Oxford University Press / Oxford University Press, Inc.
Shepherd’s Crown BooksSouthampton, United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Special edition, limited to 50 copies.This is No.:
"I change, but I cannot die"Shelley, The Cloud
THIS SERIES of photographs was made on daily visits to anornamental pool on the university campus in Southampton(Hampshire, England) where I work, over the course of a year.More specifically, the series records some of the objects thatfound their way into the pool, whether as simple wind-blownlitter, or as semi-conscious offerings to tutelary spirits.
A REVENANT is defined as "one who has returned (from death,exile, etc.), a ghost". As well as the likes of Hamlet's father, theword describes these spectral bits and pieces which reappear, indifferent guises, day after day in the pool.
Mike Chisholm, 2006
The Revenants
59
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corporaOvid, Metamorphoses
Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreateArthur Golding 1567
Of bodies chang'd to other shapes I singGeorge Sandys 1632
Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I singSir Samuel Garth 1717
Animus my mind fert inclines [me] dicere to speak of formasforms mutatas changed in nova corpora into new bodiesRev. Dr. Giles 1862
My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformedto bodies new and strangeBrookes More 1922
Of bodies changed to other forms I tellA.D. Melville 1986