1. Jenna Broderick
Our final assignment for the SUNY/Empire State College residency, Mapping the Perceptual and Textual was to create a text-only map that told some form of a story. The options
were wide open and we could create any text from linear to abstract. I first penned Wife Returns on Sunday by way of redacting an article from the New York Times. The second
part was to create a physical representation of our text. The map of Wife was created as a visual response and narrative to the unintentional unearthing of Wife’s story.
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Wife Returns on Sunday
Sunrise and soft lament.
A call to nobody.
Waiting to be tapped has become common as rice.
The sounds are for show. Bathed in dim and mournful drama the Madam begins at dawn, an early
enjoyable but by-the-book drama.
A female of State and obvious inspiration.
With a human face, a husky voice and a loose unusual brain, she has all the determination of the
Original.
It’s a wish dragged reluctantly into high.
Her time there is spent making the world her next move.
A closer model found in a different name.
Wife.
Wife, who stands then leaves and returns on Sunday. Sunday is bracing and especially long. It's the
imagination and energy of it's married creators.
The Wife, played, is sympathetic but also devious not beyond using her own words.
Believe.
In some ways the Madame seeks to be the first hostage, talking in echoes to save another held by the calls of State to show as real life.
This fantasy was forced upon her. She is unexplained and content to raise horses and children.
Reluctantly, she makes a difference, on the wrong side and sports a ghost of a smile.
In charge without approval He asks Her how She did it. "I don't know. With a shrug?"
Suddenly full of a Heroine's mind and of state Her home has opened doors.
Stealing a bit from home and from house, faith in Mrs. over She proves to be too dark.
Wife stands.
She strikes virtue. She balances vice.
The Madam has good but would be better if She were just a little worse.
2. Redacted from: Stanley, A. (2014, September 19). Two Ways to Accessorize Power ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women. The New York Times , p. C1.
