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...Sarah M. Hulsey '01 spends a good deal of her time at the Bow & Arrow Press, an old-fashioned letter-press workshop buried deep in what you might call the bowels of Adams House B-Entry. There, in a vaguely medieval space stuffed to the gills with drawers full of type (Helvetica, Futura, you name it), a quarter-century's worth of magnesium plates and the assembled knick-knacks of the letter-press trade, Hulsey prints books and broadsides of poetry written by her friends and roommate, Susannah Lang Hollister '01, in addition to original work. In a painstaking procedure...
...Hulsey, whose inveterate curiosity led her to printing almost accidentally some three years ago, the physical, material quality of ink, type and paper and the intimate, time intensive process needed to put them together have proved a source of lasting fascination. Books as ephemera, as cultural phenomena, interest her, as do their status as reproduced and reproducible objects. At the moment, Hulsey is teaching herself to carve woodblocks and is testing out more experimental ground for her printing, eager as she always is to expand into new ideas, skills and projects. With lively enthusiasm, she talks animatedly about her latest...
Originally, Hulsey says, she wanted simply to interview people whose professions were wholly unfamiliar to her and have them recount the procedures involved in their work. From there she intended to transcribe what she remembered of these instructions repeatedly, after increasingly long intervals of time, printing the results as a way of exploring the nature of memory, narrative and repetition. The general plan of action is still the same, but, after contacting a professional taxidermist as part of the project, she's become enamored with taxidermy itself-so much so that she intends the book to be taxidermic in form...
Memory and preservation are familiar themes for Hulsey. Back in her room, the walls are plastered with old painting and silk-screen projects. Some of the most interesting ones play with repeated photographic images, printed one after another in bright, messy hues. Hulsey particularly likes one piece in which she multiplies an old photograph of a woman fishing into a veritable army of women: it strikes her as being both "strong" and "pretty," a paradoxical combination of "warfare" and "leisure." Equally intriguing is a series in which she repeats silkscreens of turn-of-the-century photographs of her great-grandparents...
...Timon's friends and parasites. Colored lights are used very emphatically, with semi-obscurity surrounding Timon in the first stages of madness. Strong red light is used to symbolize the fall of Athens and the death of Timon. In addition, the Jeweler (Maggie Lehrman '04) and the Painter (John Hulsey '03) stand out throughout the play for their stage presence. They provide cohesion to the groups, silent commentary on the actions of Timon's associates and excellent comic relief. Lehrman and Hulsey bring together a good, if occasionally disparate, stage to make Timon of Athens a worthwhile visual experience...