Swoon

Artist Caledonia Curry is known as Swoon to admirers who follow her work on streets & in galleries all over the world. She is perhaps best known for the life-size prints & figural paper cutouts pasted onto walls for the past ten years,each portrait taking on a new life as it is slowly destroyed by the elements. Much of Swoon's work is like this - beautiful & powerful, but ephemeral. Her projects are often grand in scope, requiring months of preparation & huge numbers of collaborators to make them a reality. Her most recent focus has been on armadas of boats fashioned from scavenged junk and then launched by crews of craftsmen into the Mississippi & Hudson rivers & the Adriatic Sea. Color illus.