![]() ![]() Hearing stories from old artist friends of his, she learns about a lost love and the beginnings of his heroin addiction, and finds parallels with her tumultuous youth in New York. Negative Space by Lilly DancygerĪlmost a decade after the sudden death of her sculptor father, Dancyger revisits his notebooks, piecing together his life and art as she recontextualizes her grief. These seven books portray the fragile and complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the shock as that bond is forever severed. ![]() Even now, I find myself navigating each day resentful of losing that presence all daughters are supposed to have. I spent my youth as my father’s number one fan, diving into sports, watching terrible Adam Sandler movies, crying onto math homework late into the evening because I didn’t want to finish it without his help. “ Something happened to Dad,” she says, and I know I’ve lost everything. My mother beckons me over to her, which feels strange and out-of-character, but I oblige and sit on the edge of the couch as she kneels in front of me. They stop whispering the moment they see me, so I self-consciously remove the headgear from my teeth. I creep up the stairs, and I see my sisters and mother sitting on the couch. I can go back to the morning I learned my father was dead moment by moment, exactly as it occurred, like I’m there again. ![]()
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