zinnia

 

i remember, as a boy, my grandmother asking me to fold some mauvey-pink paper napkins for a croquet party......i opted to spend hours folding the little coctail napkins into calla lily shapes and clustering them into a giant zinnia.......grandpa's dog, rex, rolled over onto a folding leg of the samsonite card table that i was creating this project on.........it was like alice in wonderland's collapsing cards....fify flat, pink napkins lying on the grass.......the older i get, the more fragments of the past float through my consciousness.