Haylie Ferguson in a long black silk dress seated on a stool between glass block walls, collage with anatomical illustrations, dried flowers and torn paper

The Bell Jar — Haylie Ferguson

OB.SCENA / INSTALLMENT IIMAISON OBLIQUE2026
I / CONDITIONTHE AIR IS THE SAME

To the person under it, the bell jar is not an event. It is a Tuesday.

Nothing dramatic occurs. The rooms stay beautiful. The plants are watered on schedule. The subject answers messages within a reasonable window and is described by acquaintances as well.

What changes is transmission. Sound arrives late. Affection arrives at the wrong temperature. The distance between a life and the person living it is measured here in millimetres of glass.

This record does not describe recovery. It describes occupancy — the ordinary competence of continuing inside a sealed volume, and the performance required to make that look like living.

Haylie Ferguson in a white silk gown standing in a flooded pale blue salon, a bell jar drawn in fine white line around her, two cats watching
PLATE 01 / SUBJECT SEALED — ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE STABLE
II / FILESCASE FILES — ROOM INDEX
FILE 01 / 5:13

Esther

  • ARTIST — Haylie Ferguson
OPEN FILE
ESTHER GREENWOOD / 13 FILES RELEASED / SEQUENCE AS PUBLISHED
Haylie Ferguson reflected in broken mirror fragments among handwritten letters and dried hydrangeas
PLATE 04 / REFLECTION DISPERSED — HYDRANGEA SPECIMENS
III / DIAGRAMFIG TREE EVENT — BRANCHING SPECIMEN STUDY
F-01F-02F-03F-04F-05F-06F-07F-08F-09F-10F-11F-12

Each fig is a life she could have had. Choosing one starves the others; waiting starves them all. The diagram does not resolve.

SELECT A SPECIMEN — SELECTION HAS CONSEQUENCES
FUTURES REMAINING
12 / 12
SELECTION
PENDING
IV / ROOMSTHE APARTMENT — MEMORY ARCHITECTURE
Haylie Ferguson lying in pale blue water wearing a white dress
SUBJECT SEATED / DURATION EXCEEDS FOUR HOURS

The afternoon went past the window like something being delivered elsewhere.

Haylie Ferguson photographed through a pane of shattered glass in a dim concrete room
V / FRACTURE — PLATE 03

The glass remembers the impact.

Fracture origin undetermined. Structure holds. Visibility reduced in both directions.

VI / MATERIALRECOVERED MATERIAL — CONTACT SHEET
VII / CATALOGUETHE BELL JAR — TWO PARTS / ONE ARCHIVE

ARTWORK / TRACKLIST

TBA

the bell jar: victoria lucas

Part II

SEALED / TBA
the bell jar. cover
ARCHIVAL EDITION / DEMONSTRATION RECORDINGS

the bell jar.

The earlier working recordings of The Bell Jar.

OPEN DEMOS ON SPOTIFY ↗
LISTENING CHAMBER — ESTHER GREENWOOD
13 FILES / AVAILABLE NOW
PRESSURE STABLE / PLAYBACK PERMITTEDOPEN FULL RECORD ↗

PRESSURE EQUALISED / NO FURTHER OBSERVATION SCHEDULED

Some afternoons the room is only a room. Nothing has been resolved. The light is simply on the floor again, and she is in it.

Haylie Ferguson at a table in a pale apartment, seen through broken glass, beside a specimen dome
VIII / CLOSING STATEMENTTRACK 13 — GREENWOOD

I am,I am,I am.

Heartbeat recorded through glass — 74 bpm — the seal holds