Irregular Pearl
from inside women's spaces
 

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Amid the elaborate ornamentation of Hadley's Orient Hotel boaroque msic played live by duo antiqua accompanied by performative drawing in a in a lyrical reimagining of Hadley's  Drawing Room for Ladies  (1896).

Hadley’s Orient Hotel interior ornamentation echoed through the elaborate, decorative, excess and unpredictability of baroque music played live in-situ by Duo Antiqua.  Inside, below I draw their music as it twines and flows through deeper spaces. 

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I draw baroque music played live by Duo Antiqua. Together we bring the decorative excess and unpredictability of  baroque to accompany the elaborate ornamentation of Hadley’s Orient Hotel in this lyrical improvised  play on the skills one may have practiced in Hadley's Public Drawing room for Ladies (1896)

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In this lyrical play on Hadley's Orient Hotel's Public Drawing room for Ladies (1896), the hotel's ornamentation is echoed through the decorative, excess and unpredictability of  baroque music played live in-situ by Duo Antiqua.    Inside, below, I draw the music as it flows through deeper spaces. 

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The viola de gamba and recorder is accompanied by performative drawing as we bring the decorative excess and unpredictability of  baroque to echo the elaborate ornamentation of Hadley’s Orient Hotel.

 * The term baroque comes from the Portuguese word barroco meaning misshapen pearl - irregular pearl

Photography by Gerrard Dixon