One day walking round Tavistock Square I made up, as I sometimes make up my books, ‘To the Lighthouse’ – Virginia Woolf.
That quote is the inspiration for an illustrated pamphlet published last month and created by artist Louisa Amelia Albani. Titled A Moment in the Life of Virginia Woolf: A Lighthouse Shone in Tavistock Square, the booklet visually reimagines this ‘moment’ on a summer afternoon in London’s Tavistock Square in 1925.
To do so, it uses Woolf’s own words from her letters and diaries, along with excerpts from To the Lighthouse (1927).
I ordered a copy of Albani’s pamphlet last week. It hasn’t arrived from London yet, but I did get a thank you email for my order directly from Albani — an unexpected but lovely treat.
Art exhibit too
The artist also has an online art exhibition with the same title. The exhibit includes more than a dozen pieces based on Woolf. Many of them are already sold, so if you are interested in an original piece of art connected to Woolf, take a look now.
Below is a video of the project that the artist has posted on YouTube.
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What an incredible video–so moving, artistic, beautifully drawn–that green sky over the buildings near the end is stunning. The music is amazing as well. Quite caught the ethereally floating mood of what creating a work of art often wraps one in, whether music or visual arts or writing. Thanks so much for posting this and introducing this wonderful artist. Mary F. Burns