The present he wraps in a protective gauze of dreams; his eyes have grown misty with focusing far ahead on the unrealized farm, vellum and lace paper (2011) - 24"x12"
I made this assemblage by twisting together ribbons of text that I laser-cut out of vellum. It was a project for my Collage class in February 2011, for which I was asked to create a piece inspired by and incorporating text. I chose a quote from Zoe Wicomb's novel, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, which I read for another winter quarter class, The Mixed Race Literature of the U.S. and South Africa. The quote (also the title of my piece) is at once poetic and contemplative, sad with a hint of optimism. I wanted to capture the sense of entanglement, of being stuck, that the novel suggests, while also playing on the lightness of dreams.
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