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Ode to Jealousy
HANGING BY A THREAD/An einem Faden hängen.
Sparkasse & Saumweber in Fürth, Germany.
Exhibition: April 18 - May 11 2007.
Change of use/Gebrauchswandel
Change of mind/Gesinnungswandel
Change of identity/Identitätswandel
Change of industry/ Industriewandel
Change of place/Ortswechsel
Nicola Atkinson Davidson’s Hanging by Thread / Ode
to Jealousy exhibition for the City of Fürth, pulls
together different threads of history to form its basis. It invites
you to look at yourself through someone else's profile, cut out
in silhouette, using mirrors and framing each site, to introduce
inward reflection of desires, our sense of freedom and our place
within the world.
The shawl production of Paisley was at its height in the late 17th
and early 18th century, although the mass of workers were employed
in a technically skilled manner, the creativity and passion of these
people was written down in the from of poetry as seen in the poem
“Ode to Jealousy” by Robert Tannahill. It talks of contemplation,
desires and liberating oneself from ones thoughts.
At the same time as this the silhouette was a very popular affordable
form of portraiture before the invention of the photograph. The
use of the cut-out silhouette as a way to present the profile evokes
the cutting away process of creating patterns for the shawls. Instead
of paper the cut-out materials will be metal and mirror to reference
the important mirror production history of Furth.
 The
profile is that of a Scottish artisan creating a link between the
skilled workers of the past and those of the present working in
Scotland. This then brings the past and present workers of Scotland
together.
Ode to Jealousy
Mark what daemon hither bends,
Gnawing still his finger-ends,
Wrapt in contemplation deep,
Wrathful, yet inclin’d to weep,
Thy wizard gait, thy breath-check’d broken sigh,
Thy burning cheeks, thy lips, black, wither’d, dry;
Thy side- thrown glance, with wild malignant eye,
Betray thy foul intent, infernal Jealousy.
Hence thou self-tormenting fiend,
To thy spleen-dug cave descend,
Fancying wrongs that never were,
Rend thy bosom, tear thy hair,
Brood fell hate within thy den,
Come not near the haunts of men.
Let man be faithful to his brother man,
Nor guileful, still revert kind heaven’s plan,
Then slavish fear, and mean distrust shall cease,
And confidence, confirm a lasting mental place.
Robert Tannahill 1774 – 1810
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