Heart's Escape

Heart's Escape

Heart’s Escape
This piece was inspired by Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poem “The Heart of a Woman”, (excerpt below from http://www.bartleby.com/269/67.html):
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The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
—Georgia Douglas Johnson
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The gilded cage…however lavishly adorned, is still a prison… of convention, circumstance, oppression, luck, fate, happenstance. This piece was first titled Caged Heart. But where is the heart? I couldn’t bear to see her confined, so I let her escape through her dreams into the ocean’s deep embrace.
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The apt quotation on the cage “I have no wings to fly, I am bound in this spot evermore” is adapted from Tagore’s poem, “I Am Restless” (http://www.poetry-archive.com/t/i_am_restless.html)

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