The Place of Many Moods
A website companion to the book The Place of Many Moods.
From the site: "This website supplements The Place of Many Moods to create new opportunities for immersive and iterative viewing across the length and breadth of the select artifacts, many of which are studied and published for the first time here. For instance, examining up close the complex spatial composition and minute details and labels seen in the Letter of Invitation Sent to the Monk Jinharsh Suri, 1830, enables us to reflect on the continuities and discontinuities between manually unrolling and examining long paper scrolls and scrolling up and down a pixelated screen to find new cues and connections. Similarly, visually scanning across the digital images of Udaipur’s large court paintings and architectural drawings reveals meticulous brushwork and painterly effects that may be concealed in the book’s printed reproductions. In the future, I hope we can find the imaginative digital and technological means to convey the material presence and scalar specificity of these artifacts, as they were bundled and unfurled, folded and unfolded."