ArtLab supports selected artist led initiatives.We will work on issues arising from fragments of the Mary Shelley journals.
So far I have noticed that ice appears to be a recurring motif both in her life and literature.
Ice. Water’s full stop.
During one of her several miscarriages Percy placed Mary Shelley in a bath of ice thereby helping to stop the blood
loss and possibly saving her life.
In the first pages of ‘Frankenstein’ the
‘being’ appears in the icy wastes of the Arctic; giving birth to the character.
