The series, “Excerpts From a Fugue,” is made from vintage black Japanese kimono silk that I found in a flea market in Kyoto. I have altered the cloth in order to open up a real and metaphoric space of movement and light. While working on the series, I was reading the Albanian poet, Luljeta Lleshanaku, and was especially fascinated by how she connects the present with the past. In the poem,“Memory,” she writes, There is no prophecy, only memory, What happens tomorrow has happened a thousand years ago