The Bell Jar | Haylie Ferguson

Haylie Ferguson submerged in a pale blue chamber, wearing a white draped gown

OB.SCENA / INSTALLMENT IIMAISON OBLIQUE2026

I / CONDITIONTHE AIR IS THE SAME

To the person under it, the bell jar 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.

The record is filed in two parts. Esther Greenwood gives the account from inside, by a narrator who can name the damage and still romanticises it. Victoria Lucas, the name Sylvia Plath used to publish her novel, returns to the same history in a clinical register: what happened, by what mechanism, and what stayed.

This record 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

FIG TREE EVENT
MULTIPLE FUTURES IDENTIFIED
SELECTION FAILED

“Some cups crack under oceans they were handed”

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

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

PART I / AVAILABLE NOW

the bell jar: esther greenwood

Part I / 13 FILES / RELEASED 4 SEPTEMBER 2026

Part I of The Bell Jar. Thirteen files told from inside the jar by a narrator who can name the damage and still romanticises it, opening on the fig tree and closing on an alarm set for no one.

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PART II / AVAILABLE NOW

the bell jar: victoria lucas

Part II / 17 FILES / RELEASED 25 SEPTEMBER 2026

Part II of The Bell Jar, filed under the name Sylvia Plath used to publish her novel. Seventeen files that return to the same history in a clinical register: what happened, by what mechanism, and what stayed.

STREAMING LINKS ARRIVINGOPEN 17 FILES