Description of Project
“Between Her Lines” is an archive of sapphic feeling. I created a history of the 90s that captures the longing and intimacy expressed in sapphic “writing.” I used text-based ephemera written and/or published in the 90s. This archive will center around the emotional sapphic experience, including love, intimacy, passion, desire, longing, etc. The writing in question will be ephemeral objects that elicit these feelings. For the focus of this project, I will be focusing on archiving the works of several historical and contemporary poets and songwriters. I have organized these sapphic feelings into a record that shows the longing for intimacy and affection. I chose sapphic for many reasons, the most obvious one being that I am a lesbian and identify myself as sapphic. In addition, I’ve always been interested in lesbian writing. I chose the 90s for the sole reason of being a 90s baby: I was born in the 90s. When crunch time came around, and I had to settle on a time period, I picked the 90s for this reason. I chose the specific emotions of love, longing, desire, and intimacy because they were easily distinguishable in the writing of the 90s, but very subtle. What did I collect? It started with poetry, and while I realized that I could create a very good archive with just poetry, I decided to add song lyrics in because of the writing behind them. Song lyrics are a form of poetry. In the end, I spent countless hours digging through poems and songs to present this archive to my class (and the world). I chose these particular writers because their work was written in and/or published in the 90s. I hope you enjoy this archive as much as I enjoyed creating it.
Love, Amber.
