Cairo Clarke, in the absence of ruins
Visual and literary references
Note 1 (00:51–04:17)
Image 1
Vesuvius, 1869?, Colourised photo looking across Pompeii to Vesuvius. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Vesuvius/Vesuvius%20p4.htm
Image 2
Looking north from IX.5, across V.2 at Pompeii, towards Vesuvius. 1964. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski., The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections and made available under the Creative Commons
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Vesuvius/Vesuvius%20p4.htm
Video 3
Luna, Egyptian Mummies at the British Museum in London England 3000 years old mummy Egypt
Source: https://youtu.be/K4VDgOwshy4?t=70
Image 4
Artist & Empire, Tate Britain, 2016, Cairo Clarke personal archive
Image 5
What to do at the British Museum, @freeze_magazine
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CM0HIM_FMCs/
Image 6–12
Selection of 6 images and 1 video from Cairo Clarke’s personal archive
Image 13
Museum display, @pompeii_parco_archeologico
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKEmBKahVps/
Note 2 (04:18–08:39)
Image 1
Page detail from The Natural History of Pompeii book by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Image 2
Daily Roman bread. From #Pompeii: a carbonised loaf and a fresco of a selection of loaves. From #Herculaneum: a fresco of a loaf and two bulbs of garlic. #PompeiiAtMadre #NaplesMuseum
Source: https://twitter.com/pompei79/status/977849413853958145/photo/3
Image 3
Carbonized food remains from Pompeii and other Vesuvian sites: (13) Carbonized onion bulbs from Herculaneum, (14) Carbonized garlic clove from Herculaneum, (15) Carbonized fig in pyriform shape from Herculaneum, (16) Carbonized caprifig showing seed cavities and seed from Pompeii, (17) Carbonized chestnuts from Villa Poppaea, Oplontis, with modern comparison (18).
Source: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/436989970096090322/
Image 4
Page detail from The Natural History of Pompeii book by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Image 5
Detail from page 406 Meyer, Frederick G. “Carbonized Food Plants of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Villa at Torre Annunziata.” Economic Botany, vol. 34, no. 4, 1980, pp. 401–437.
Source: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4254221. Accessed 23 Mar. 2021.
Image 6
VI.10.1 Pompeii. May 2003. Fresco on south wall of rear room. Detail of people at a table with sausages, onions and other food hanging above them. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.
Source: http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2010%2001.htm
Image 7
Figure 3 ALLIUM L. SUBGEN. RHIZIRIDEUM SENSU LATO IN IRAN, TWO NEW RECORDS AND A SYNOPSIS OF TAXONOMY AND PHYTOGEOGRAPHY
Image 8
Page detail from The Natural History of Pompeii book by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Image 9
Detail from page 404, Meyer, Frederick G. “Carbonized Food Plants of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Villa at Torre Annunziata.” Economic Botany, vol. 34, no. 4, 1980, pp. 401–437.
Source: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4254221. Accessed 23 Mar. 2021.
Image 10–15
Collection of images and videos from Cairo Clarke personal archive
Note 3 (08:40–11:56)
Image 1
Vesuvius eruption 79 AD. « La Mort de Pline » by Jean-Édouard Dargent known as Yan Dargent, 1870. Pliny the Elder is shown dead on the beach with an erupting Vesuvius behind. See Rambosson J, 1883. Histoire Des Météores: Quatrième édition. Paris: Firmin-Didot, fig. 80, p. 401.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Vesuvius/Vesuvius%20p1.htm
Image 2
Scan from A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
Image 3
Villa San Marco, Stabiae, September 2015. Area 65, lower area beneath the niche with the stuccoed Venus with painting of two people, one on either side of a thymiaterion (incense burner), making offerings
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/RV/Villa%20San%20Marco%20Stabiae%20p18.htm
Image 4
VII.4.59 Pompeii. Drawing by Giuseppe Marsigli, of female figure with garland and incense burner, as seen on upper south wall, on west side of centre. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number ADS 683. Photo © ICCD. https://www.catalogo.beniculturali.it/
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/r7/7%2004%2059%20p4.htm
Image 5
Pompei. Santuario adiacente al muro ovest di Pompei dedicato a una divinità femminile (Minerva Italica). Fig. 33. Thymiatérion fittile.
Source: http://pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Temples/SancDFabiusRufusMinerva.htm
Image 6
NGOF Pompeii. September 2011. Inscription on marble plaque from south wall of tomb of M. Obellius Firmus. Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/Tombs/tombs%20ngof.htm
Image 7 & 8
Scan from A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
Image 9
Source unknown
Note 4 (11:57–16:03)
Image 1
Detail scan page 103, “Roman Poem Number Five”, in Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Jordan, June
Image 2
Cairo Clarke approx 10 years old on holiday in Italy when she visited Pompeii
Image 3
IX.3.5 Pompeii. March 2009. Looking north from room 27, across secondary tablinum and atrium to rear entrance at IX.3.24.
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/r9/9%2003%2005%20p12.htm
Image 4
A dog rests under an exhibit as tourists visit Pompeii, REUTERS/Tony Gentile
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-pompeii-idUSL1848994520080718
Image 5
Detail scan page 108-109, Roman Poem Number Five, in Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Jordan, June
Image 6
Visitors walk in Pompeii, REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-pompeii-idUSL1848994520080718
Image 7
Da oggi riaperti gli Scavi di Pompei e il Museo Archeologico di Stabia. Vi aspettiamo. @pompeii_parco_archeologico
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLwx3YBi2Z/
Image 8
Detail scan page 104-105, Roman Poem Number Five, in Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Jordan, June
Note 5 (16:04–19:35)
Image 1
Detail of Thoughts on Militant Experimentation, Troubled Joy by Cairo Clarke
Image 2
Detail of Thoughts on Militant Experimentation, Troubled Joy by Cairo Clarke
Video 3
Cairo Clarke personal archive
Image 4
Detail scan of page 189 Tidalectics, IImagining an Oceanic Worldview through Art and Science. Edited by Stefanie Hessler
Image 5
VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2015. Room 9, lower part of east wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R7/7%2016%20a%20nymphaeum%20p2.htm
Image 6
IX.7.20 Pompeii. December 2007. Mosaic fountain. Arched top with Venus in a shell and bathing figures.
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/r9/9%2007%2020%20p5.htm
Image 7
V.4.a Pompeii. April 2015. Hunting fresco with life-size animals on north wall of garden area. Photo courtesy of Sharon M. Wolf.
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/r5/5%2004%20a%20garden%20p2.htm
Image 8
IX.1.7 Pompeii. Niche with stucco of a shell and figures. Detail from old undated photograph courtesy of Society of Antiquaries: Fox Collection.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R9/9%2001%2007.htm
Video 9
Cairo Clarke personal archive
Note 6 (19:36–22:21)
Image 1
Pompeii Parco Archeologico Collection
Image 2 & 3
Page detail from Chapter 13, The Natural History of Pompeii book by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
Image 4
VI.8.22 Pompeii. May 2017. Detail of shell and mosaic from north end of fountain. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2008%2022%20p3.htm
Note 7 (22:22–end)
Image 1
VI.15.1 Pompeii. 1957. Looking towards north-east end of garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski. The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections and made available under the Creative Commons
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2015%2001%20peristyle%20p3.htm
Image 2
VI.17.42 Pompeii. Oecus 32. Detail of reed warbler from garden fresco from south wall. Parco Archeologico di Pompei, inventory number 40692.
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2017%2042%20garden.htm
Image 3
VI.17.42 Pompeii. Oecus 32, part of garden fresco from north wall. Inventory number 40690. See Jashemski, W. F., 1993. The Gardens of Pompeii, Volume II: Appendices. New York: Caratzas. (p.348, T: 406, Fig. 2).
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2017%2042%20garden.htm
Image 4
Front cover of Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden, image taken by Cairo Clarke
Image 5
Joseph Banks
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Banks#/media/File:BotanicMacaroni.jpg
Image 6
Camellia Sinesis botanical illustration
Image 7
Photograph of Cairo Clarke’s grandparents circa 1960
Image 8
Watercolour illustration of the breadfruit plant (Artocarpus altilis) prepared by Sydney Parkinson on board HMS Endeavour, 1769
Source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/joseph-banks-scientist-explorer-botanist.html
Image 9
Nothin like a Jamaican breakfast @iamshaelene
Source: https://www.picuki.com/media/2472709568238876858
Image 10–14
Photos of food & plants grown in London by Cairo Clarke’s family, images Cairo Clarke personal archive
Image 15
II.3.3 Pompeii. 1964. Room 11, east panel of south wall. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski. The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections and made available under the Creative Commons
Source: http://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R2/2%2003%2003%20part%2011.htm
Image 16
VIII.5.38/16 Pompeii. 1959. Looking towards north portico, with doorway in centre linking to VIII.5.15, then Wilhelmina and Tatiana Warscher exiting into the small vicolo. On the right is the large entrance to Room 1, the open triclinium. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski. The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections and made available under the Creative Commons
Source: https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R8/8%2005%2038.htm
Video 17
Cairo Clarke personal archive