A Narrator’s Farewell Part III: Bringing the Hotel’s Paintings to Life
Finally, I leave you and the Pfister Hotel with twenty (soon to be twenty-one–I’ll explain later) creative works written by me and participants in the five Plume Service writing experiences that took place between December and April. My original goal was to bring all 80 of the Victorian-era paintings in the Hotel to life, so for the first two […]
PLUME SERVICE 4.0 | February 22, 2017 | Victorian Paintings Gone Wild (Warning: NSFW…just kidding…come on…they’re paintings!)
Before we get to the results of the fourth Plume Service writing workshop, let me just say: This is not what I had planned! It’s not important what I was going to have the writers’ focus be; what’s important is that we decided to begin by brainstorming a list of different genres and formats with which […]
PLUME SERVICE III | January 25, 2017 | Small Details, Big Themes, and Lots of Wine
Plume Service is slowly but surely writing its way down the mezzanine hallways, so far invigorating half of the paintings with literary life: writers have wormholed and teleported, stepped into and out of oily, centuried canvases, listened intently for lunar whispers and clandestine confessions. During the last week of January, Plume Service moved from its usual Saturday afternoon time […]
PLUME SERVICE II | December 10, 2016 | More “Hearing Voices”
As promised, here are a few more stories inspired by the paintings in The Pfister Hotel. The first was written by Amy Miller–we squealed in delight at its ability to be both formal sounding and naughty. The second is another by Amy, a letter from a character in the hazy painting who is barely recognizable at […]
PLUME SERVICE II | December 10, 2016 | “Hearing Voices”
What is “voice”? It’s what comes out of our mouths when we speak, the reverberation of air through our vocal cords that makes particular sounds, with a pitch and a timbre, a tone and a frequency. But is that all it is? Is it the expression of our unique style, whether spoken or written (or even […]
Plume Service Vol. 1: Sensual Perspectives of Time & Space, Cont’d
In today’s edition of Plume Service Vol. 1, you’ll read different stories inspired by the same painting. The Olive Branch and Stone by Zoë Lindstrom (aka Countess Zoëlla Germaine) Blue wind, Yesterday you were our enemy. We rolled our hearts with the old sea– salt monster– the nets yielding unspoken things. Ochre sun and stone, such strangers […]