{"product_id":"atarah-atkinson-tassels","title":"Tassels","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eThe Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome is one of the few places left in the world where time has been allowed to simply stay. Still owned by the same aristocratic family that has inhabited the palazzo for centuries, its rooms hold original furnishings, tapestries, and silks that have never been replaced — only lived with, and slowly worn by natural elements. I visited with my film cameras, moving through rooms that felt less like a museum and more like a house that had been preserved in time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe windows were what caught my attention first, their frames adorned with their original silk fabrics, draped forever from initial intent. I drew closer and could see the deterioration of the fabric — holes worn through, layers missing, the curtains coming undone at their edges after decades of afternoon light falling across them in the same spot. The silk tassels hanging from the tie-backs were falling apart too, their threads unraveling, spent. The romance and pain of it all — everything it must have given to that room, and everything the room had taken without noticing. The photograph is printed as an archival giclée and held in an antique Florentine gilded frame with red velvet inside lacing, found at a Roman flea market — one of a pair, its companion now holding another image from the same gallery, that one instead showing the universal signal that something is too precious to be used.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTassels\u003c\/em\u003e is about what it means to make something beautiful and then watch it spend itself in service of something else. The tassel was never the point — the curtain was, the light was, the grandeur of the palazzo was — and yet here it is, one of the last things standing, recognized at last for the life it gave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis piece is part of Bright Ruin (2025), my series of over 45 unique works shot entirely on analog film over the course of 10 days in Rome, and first exhibited at Gallery ATARAH in September 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atarah Atkinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44857389678626,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/6959\/6962\/files\/20250816_BRIGHT_RUIN_INSTALL_SINGLE-Hanging_075_RT_WEB.jpg?v=1772053508","url":"https:\/\/galleryatarah.com\/products\/atarah-atkinson-tassels","provider":"gallery ATARAH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}