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Sleepwalking child
In 1481 Jean Bourdicon painted
fifty rolls of paper with angels on a blue background. The guild of paperhangers had not yet been born. Nor the cabbage rose the arabesque patterns that covered my grandmother’s wall. I was the kid who worried the wallpaper, tearing strips in the dark – in the morning my hands full of shredded roses, not knowing who placed them there or why. King Louis XVI made a decree that the length of the wallpaper should be a continuous thirty four feet. All those angels, not one held back my outstretched arms.
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