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The RevenantsPhotographs copyright Mike Chisholm 2007

Quotation on p.59 from Ovid’s Metamorphoses,translated by A.D. Melville (OUP, 1987)

by permission of Oxford University Press / Oxford University Press, Inc.

Shepherd’s Crown BooksSouthampton, United Kingdom

Email: shepcrown@aol.com

Special edition, limited to 50 copies.This is No.:

"I change, but I cannot die"Shelley, The Cloud

THIS SERIES of photographs was made on daily visits to anornamental pool on the university campus in Southampton(Hampshire, England) where I work, over the course of a year.More specifically, the series records some of the objects thatfound their way into the pool, whether as simple wind-blownlitter, or as semi-conscious offerings to tutelary spirits.

A REVENANT is defined as "one who has returned (from death,exile, etc.), a ghost". As well as the likes of Hamlet's father, theword describes these spectral bits and pieces which reappear, indifferent guises, day after day in the pool.

Mike Chisholm, 2006

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In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corporaOvid, Metamorphoses

Of shapes transformde to bodies straunge, I purpose to entreateArthur Golding 1567

Of bodies chang'd to other shapes I singGeorge Sandys 1632

Of bodies chang'd to various forms, I singSir Samuel Garth 1717

Animus my mind fert inclines [me] dicere to speak of formasforms mutatas changed in nova corpora into new bodiesRev. Dr. Giles 1862

My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformedto bodies new and strangeBrookes More 1922

Of bodies changed to other forms I tellA.D. Melville 1986