"...the old fable-makers searched hard for a word

to convey that what is gone is gone forever and

never found it. And so, in the best traditions of

where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name

and drowned it."

Part from the poem "Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet", from Domestic Violence by Eavan Boland

Paper synthesis with asian papers painted with ink, watercolors, pigments, charcoal.

Woman from Himba tribe, Namibia