Artist Statement:
Umbrellas. Paraguas. Parasols. Αλεξιβρόχιο (alexivrohio).
Origami umbrellas with sixteen lines built around two lines that are voice cuttings, that is, voices I experience as I move through cities and other places. Heard on buses, trains, sidewalks, streets, elsewhere. The voice cuttings repeat in other umbrellas.
Start where you will.
Heidi Zeigler, Texas-raised, teaches and writes in Mexico City. Her poems appear and are forthcoming in descant, Nouveau Re:AL, Poetry Is Currency, like a field, Apartment, The Indianapolis Review, and Wild Roof Journal, among others. She won descant magazine’s Betsy Colquitt Award and was a Pushcart Prize nominee.
