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SWOON

SWOON (Caledonia Curry) (American, b. 1977)    
Chopper 1977, 2015
Cut paper collage and acrylic on panel 
Westmont Acquisition

Chopper, 1977 is an intricately-cut paper collage, enhanced with acrylic and mounted to a board. According to the artist:

[It is] a portrait of a person and a place. There were a few years that I spent constantly traveling and trying to absorb the logic of cities. Varanasi, India felt to me like the human mind had become an external maze that your own body could move through. Ancient and familiar. And the man in the portrait, who's name I never got, he called himself the Helicopter - he was hilarious and dazzlingly alive at an incredibly old age, and beatific in his slight madness, and he shared the joy of his city with me in such a way that when I tried to process what I had seen and felt, his face was the one that beamed through.
 

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