Emily Dickenson

Emily Dickinson was a quiet, private person. Only one photo was taken of her in her lifetime at a young age. My mother recreated her dress housed in the Emily Dickinson museum for my model. I wanted to portray her in a natural element in which she thrived artistically. In one of her poems she eludes to the cherry blossoms that fell like snow. In the portrayal that I did of her she is seated on a marble bench brushing away the blossoms to reveal the first line of her poem etched into the granite.