Pocket watch discovered in the wreckage of the Steamship Pulaski by the Endurance Exploration Company.
As a novelist, I have long been fascinated with finding the hidden stories instead of retelling the known stories. Hearing an untold story is like having a great secret whispered in your ear.
I’ve learned that sometimes, to find those hidden stories, I need to log off the computer and walk through the doors of history centers and museums. When I first started my research for my new historical fiction novel,
Surviving Savannah, which tells the tragic tale of the grand Steamship Pulaski and its sinking off the coast of North Carolina in 1838 with an elite Savannah family on board, I had trouble finding the information I needed.
Star Tap by Emily Furr. Furr paints celestial visions that place cool, hard-edged objects within weightless, star-filled voids. Furr’s artwork plays with a codex of motifs, exploring their potential formations through a process of repetition. The artist’s serialized tropes take the shape of tongues laden with hallucinogenic sugar cubes, sloping conveyor belts adorned with astral points, rocket engines with acutely sharp, almost erotic edges, tubes, chains, and myriad metal hardware. Furr’s paintings can be positioned in relation to postmodern artists such as Lee Lozano (American, 1930–99) and Forrest Bess (American, 1911–77), whose depictions of archetypal shapes, colors, and quotidian objects…
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