The installation is filled with a horde of different materials; according to the show's description the glass box is filled with "wax, mirrors, plaster, acrylic paint, latex, feathers, ceramics, ink, wood, steel wire, and quartz".
"Another Autumn," for instance, is a series of one-line sketches — "a feathering of the ink whereby characters lose definition" is followed by "overlapping windowscreens, one pattern interfering with another," which is in turn followed by "sideways, all the politeness, all that irony, trying for a draw" (an echo of a line from "A Pillow-Book," a much earlier O'Brien poem).
The workshop includes making goose feather quills, mixing ink, handling parchment and watching a scribe.
The agents seized masks, ropes, scalpels and feather quills and ink bottles used for recording the get they anticipated.
She senses, however, that Berliners are more interested in her earlier experiments: the feathers, receptacles catapulting ink onto walls, the sexier stuff.
The duck is taking on a new role as adman in the print part of the campaign, which shows him writing the text of magazine ads and posters with a special kind of pen — a feather, dipped in ink.
Complete with feather quill and ink, the desk has the Carroll family crest on its lid.
Writing was done with a sharpened bird feather dipped in ink, sealed with sealing wax, and hand-carried by messenger.
Just as I never experienced a true wax seal, or the slow pleasure of feather quill and ink.
Combine a book with a feather and an ink sac to make a book with a quill.
Traditional materials were used for the original work: parchment; lamp black ink; bird feather quills; natural pigments; and gold leaf.
