Redefining Ornament: An Argument for the (Seemingly) Inessential
Taking cues from everyone from Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison to Roland Barthes and Carmen Maria Machado, Ayşe Papatya Bucak questions a key principle of conventional craft wisdom.
Taking cues from everyone from Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison to Roland Barthes and Carmen Maria Machado, Ayşe Papatya Bucak questions a key principle of conventional craft wisdom.
Confrontation becomes a powerful vessel in this narrator’s journey, and subsequently, the reader as passenger.
When meaning eludes us, we add and subtract, stack and build, until we’ve mosaicked our way deeper into the mystery.