About the Patterns
Natan Diacon-Furtado considers his patterns a creative collaboration with the historic figures he takes as inspiration. Read on to learn more about this innovative process and about the visual and archival resources the artist employed.
Each of the three collaborations includes:
One shape for each collaborator
Selected through an intuitive collaboration with each collaborator’s history and archival documents, these shapes are drawn from the Wylie House’s extensive collection of period quilts. Each shape is then used to create 4 distinct patterns with each collaborator.
Four patterns from each shape
Using each collaborator’s unique shape as a jumping off point - four unique and open-ended digital patterns were created for the site-specific digital projection installations. Building off the pieced and make-do nature of the quilts, these patterns reveal and utilize the gaps in our knowledge and archives as collaborative material to engage with Elizabeth, Harvey and Sarah.
Four site-specific Installations
Each of the three sets of patterns were digitally projected within spaces in Wylie House which have a connection to our collaborators. The projections were inside the house, but oriented towards a point beyond the house and the university, connecting with each collaborator’s life beyond the house and our archival knowledge. In orienting the projections in this way, the project opens itself up to make real-time serendipitous connections with the architecture, items and histories of Wylie House.
Natan Diacon-Furtado
In Collaboration with Harvey Young
(A) “Machinery” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Drunkard’s Path Pattern with Lockfield Gardens Site Plan, Image of Bulldozing at
Lockfield Gardens, and Image of IUPUI Parking Lot, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation
Dimensions Variable
(B) “He is a remarkably bright looking young man” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Drunkard’s Path Pattern with Theophilus A Wylie Diary Entry, Exterior Image of
Wylie Woodhouse, Measurement Tag from Wylie House Archeological Documentation, Digital
Forget-me-knots from IU Record of Harvey Young’s Attendance, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific
Installation Dimensions Variable
(C) “Athiops” / “He take his meals with Lizzie” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Drunkard’s Path Pattern with Theophilus A Wylie Diary Leather Cover, Exterior
Image of Wylie Woodhouse,Theophilus A Wylie Sketch of Wylie Woodhouse, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels,
Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
(D) “Declamation - Thanatopsis” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Drunkard’s Path Pattern with Athenian Society Roll Leather Cover, Ink Stains from
Athenian Society Roll, Digital Forget-me-knots from IU Record of Harvey Young’s Attendance,
7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
Natan Diacon-Furtado
In Collaboration with Elizabeth Breckenridge
(A) “All the rest, except Lizzie of course, are in bed” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Tumbling Blocks Pattern with Brooms from the Wylie House, Baskets from the Wylie
House, Knitting Needles from the Wylie House, Star Map from 1882 Edition of Richard Proctor’s Easy
Star Lessons, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
(B) “She must have bewitched it” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Tumbling Blocks Pattern with Brooms from the Wylie House, Image of Elizabeth in
the Wylie House Garden, Illustrated Plates of Pansies, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels
(C) “Lizzie gets handsomer every hour. She has a bran new bright blue bandanna and a new pair
of no. 8 shoes which hurt her corns.”- 2021
Digitally Manipulated Eight Point Star Pattern with Image of Elizabeth Breckenridge, Pottery Fragments
from Wylie House Archeological Documentation, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation
Dimensions Variable
(D) “I hate to see any of it go to Lizzie’s Relations”- 2021
Digitally Manipulated Prairie Star Pattern with Image of Elizabeth Breckenridge, Image of Willis O. Tyler,
Metal Front of Wylie House Pantry Cupboard with Star Design, Star Map from 1882 Edition of Richard
Proctor’s Easy Star Lessons, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
Natan Diacon-Furtado
In Collaboration with Sarah Parke Morrison
(A) “You will have to come fill the breach” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Triangle Weave Pattern with Image of Sarah Parke Morrison, Excerpt from “Sicily”
by Sarah Parke Morrison, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
(B) “Common sense would dictate that the candidate have some shadow of reputation, a few
reliable words of recommendation; or at least the outward appearance of an intelligent being.”
- 2021
Digitally Manipulated Triangle Weave Pattern with Image of Sarah Parke Morrison Hall, Excerpts from
“The Dagger” review of Sarah Parke Morrison, Excerpts from “The Dagger” review of Theophilus A Wylie,
School Colors of Mount Holyoke Seminary, Vassar College, and Williams College, 7200 Pixels x 7200
Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
(C) “At The Pause” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Triangle Weave Pattern with Image of Sarah Parke Morrison, Excerpt from “Sicily”
by Sarah Parke Morrison, Excerpt from “Three Short Poems” by Sarah Parke Morrison, Excerpt from
Handwritten Biography, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation Dimensions Variable
(D) “For some woman” - 2021
Digitally Manipulated Triangle Weave Pattern with Image of Sarah Parke Morrison, Image of Elizabeth
Breckenridge, 1906 Handwritten Vote for Trustee, 7200 Pixels x 7200 Pixels, Site Specific Installation
Dimensions Variable