In her series \u201cParallel Text,\u201d Jill Mathis pairs her arresting black and white images with single words that have been embedded within the photograph in order to generate deeper meanings. Through her title choice, Mathis asks the viewer to see more than just a farmer\u2019s field. Included with her image is this caption: \u201cIn Latin lera<\/i> means the ridge left by ploughing. The verb de-lerare<\/i> means to make an irregular ridge when ploughing. A delirius <\/i>was one who couldn\u2019t make a straight furrow when ploughing and thus came to mean a crazy or disoriented person.\u201d\u00b9 The word \u201cdelirium\u201d here is given two meanings. Her statement underscores a negative meaning; only a crazy person would plow irregular furrows. Yet the Oxford Dictionary\u2019s secondary meaning of the word is \u201ca wild excitement or ecstasy.\u201d The expansive landscape of the Italian countryside seems to better characterize this second meaning. The winding furrows seem less a product of a deranged individual, but rather of a free one: an individual basking in the expansive space of the field and the wildness of the distant snow-capped mountains. The furrows become like the hand-drawn lines of an artist, expressing some inner turmoil or excitement in the midst of the landscape.<\/p>\n
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