<maniacs.>

(2017-)

<maniacs.> is a collection of pencil and ink drawings inspired  by marginalia found in library copies of Sylvia Plath’s poetic works. Through the use of scanning technologies, photo editing software, and a light table, sections of marked-up text from Plath’s poetic oeuvre is isolated, replicated, and re-created with selected markings and commentaries.

Retracing heavy commas in dark, inky blue; underscoring thick, silvery lines of lead, or rewriting comments like "Jesus" or "Shit" in the white space of the page, <maniacs.> aims to draw attention to the physical traces and public discourse of readership and authority in a pre-and-post Internet information society.

In 2022, an essay about Plath and marginalia, " <maniacs.> of the Heterotopia: Citizen Critics and Marginalia in Library Copies of Sylvia Plath" was included in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath.

<maniacs.> was originally presented as an exhibition, with an accompanying, limited-edition chapbook of 20 copies at the MAC in Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words, Fragments conference, November 9-11, 2017.

View the chapbook here.

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