Block Time

A HYBRID MEMOIR: THE MERGING OF WORD AND FABRIC Imagine a story quilt consisting of twenty-five 12x12 blocks each symbolically depicting a seminal happening in your life. The format of Block Time simulates the fashioning of such a quilt. Whereas the narration satisfies the requisite five W's of reportage (who what why when where) the fabric's figurative designs go beyond the word. Their components - e.g. color and configuration - limn what is ineffable. Stitch together the twenty-five episodes and the twenty-five blocks and you will see the essence of a life. The accounts of hauling up drinking water in a pail from a well of a red alert just shy of the DMZ of narrowly losing one's virginity of a perilous journey through America's most dangerous ghetto do interrelate. A quilt is made the stories are told and you have a delineation of a life.