In ‘Pandemia’s Black Feather,’ a portrait of power and pathos
Pandemic shaped perspectives for Samantha R. Talbot-Kelly’s Sullivan Museum installation
The Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde suggested masks set people free “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” he wrote. “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Wilde meant masks for concealing, but Samantha R. Talbot-Kelly found truth in masks for healing the coronavirus pandemic sort.
Talbot-Kelly, a seamstress in Norwich University’s Uniform Store and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture+Art, created “Pandemia’s Black Feather,” an art installation in the Sullivan Museum and History Center.