... at which the star of the show was undoubtedly Gumdrop. This isn't Gumdrop's person, but he was passed around, being of a suitably portable size and disposition. We decided that this was very much in the spirit of Flush.
And other than that ... it was all presentations, ranging from parts of essays - essays in a creative sense - to more traditional scholarship (Woolf and the New Mathematics, in relation to Night and Day); research on where the flowers in Mrs Dalloway would have come from (including stills from a wonderful 1924 documentary called Flowers of London which apparently one can access through our USC library - when I go on line the BFI site tells me it's not watchable outside of the UK); and some terrific creative stuff. Here's some embroidery (of Jacob's Room, and behind it, of Woolf herself) - which supported a whole lot of analysis about threads and needlework;
and here are some paintings representing an understanding of the form of Woolf's novels (in the spirit of how she saw form spatially and in terms of color) - all the creative projects have essays attached, as it were - but it's been such a delight to see our graduates engaging with Woolf in whatever terms best make sense to them.
I'll miss this crew.
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