Trinity Library is the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin, built from Charlotte's own photographs of it. Using her signature multi layer photographic technique, Charlotte moves around the monument and layers views from many angles onto one surface, the way a film editor cuts a scene together from different shot scales and camera setups. The barrel vault holds the middle of the frame. The layering multiplies its arches until they run one inside another, so the ceiling reads deeper than the room is long. Everything to the left and right is books. The shelves go floor to ceiling on both levels, two hundred thousand volumes, and the letters that label the sections come with them. Some are still where they belong, on the ends of the cases. Others have come loose and float. The marble busts and the visitors arrive the same way, at two scales from two photographs: small ones far down the room, larger ones across the bottom of the frame, none of them solid. Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Swift, there to watch over the books, now standing among the people who came to see them. The arches, the rows of books, the busts and the people all run the same way. Together they make a vanishing point at the far end of the room, and the eye goes there first whether or not you meant it to. Everything else is what you find after. The longer you stay with it, the more details you see. The Long Room was built to hold everything in order. Standing in it, order is not the first thing you feel. This work is part of The Broken Series, Charlotte Fonne's tribute to the Cubist painters, where the world's iconic monuments are circled and gathered onto a single surface. Each image in the composition is personally photographed by Charlotte, ensuring a genuine and unique piece. Signed, numbered, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Limited edition. Only 5 to 20 prints per size exist in the world.
