Swoon

Artist: Swoon Title: Varanasi About the print: UnsignedArchival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle 210gsm 50% rag watercolor paper13″x19″ paper size Hand numbered edition of 350 Embossed with the Heliotrope Foundation logo  "This print is a portrait of a person and a place. There were a few years that I spent constantly traveling and trying to absorb the logic of cities. Varanasi, India felt to me like the human mind had become an external maze that your own body could move through. Ancient and familiar. And the man in the portrait, who's name I never got, he called himself the Helicopter - he was hilarious and dazzlingly alive at an incredibly old age, and beatific in his slight madness, and he shared the joy of his city with me in such a way that when I tried to process what I had seen and felt, his face was the one that beamed through." About the Artist: Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large