Exerpts from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
"This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then." p.8
"The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." p.5
"It used to disturb me at first. I thought seriously of burning th ehouse - to reach the smell. But now I am use to it. The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell." p.15
"I really have discovered something... The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over." p.15
Installation notes November, 1989
earthquake
effect: the power to cause results.
I need to concentrate
define space
alter space
space alters
gather materials
scatter materials
decorate
tear it down
define story
get sick
investigate power
investigate submission
write
assemble
tear it down