GUTSTRING SHOWCASE - Alexandra Bouge

My now deceased mother created these

My now deceased mother created these collages which, for her, represented the faces of the communist dictatorship she had experienced in Romania.

Unexpected event

I wrote this text while mourning my mother, who was a Romanian political refugee in France.

Text

“She gave you her very breath”

I’m anchored to the birds

to womankind

I’m anchored to those people who migrate from one extremity of the planet to the other, may their song go on for ever

light

exceptional

the priest has made the ceremony holy: “For you, Michaela”

“A rich woman lives on in you”

Or:

I’m anchored to the birds

I’m anchored to those people who migrate from one extremity of the planet to the other, may their song go on for ever

through many a conflict their being reaches the goal, light exceptional

the priest has made the ceremony holy, “For you Michaela”, faith

“A rich woman lives on in you”