What a lovely thing when someone sees your work, continues thinking about it later, and has nice things to say about it.  I am very grateful! 

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Ellen Griley  Wed. July 22, 2009

Long Beach Museum of Art’s epic ‘Novel Constructions’"NOVEL CONSTRUCTIONS"

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But the show undoubtedly reaches its pinnacle with two works by Cheryl Sorg, “Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story . . . .” (The Odyssey) and “Bodies, I have in mind, and how they can change to assume new shapes . . . .” (Metamorphoses). With each, Sorg employs the same essential components: paper (two copies of Homer’s The Odyssey in one and of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the other), clear tape and Mylar. What will awe you is her process: dissecting and repositioning (cut/tape/cut/tape/etc.) every word of every sentence from both stories, Sorg painstakingly retells the epics in their entirety, taking The Odyssey on a dizzying, swirling path in two looming circular pieces and giving each of the 15 books in Metamorphoses its own piece, which transition in shape from a disc with a small hole in its middle to a cloud-like form with a butterfly at its center. (The entire work suspends from 30 feet high, creating something of a flight path.) Simply put, both are stunning. Attempts to read them for longer than a few seconds deliver headaches, most assuredly, but also an appreciation for books—for stories and storytelling—that could never be delivered by bound pages. Even those unfamiliar with these works will be drawn to them, perhaps especially, if you crouch low enough, Sorg’s recasting of Ovid’s final words: “My work, my fame, will continue, ascending as high as the sky, and among the stars the name of Ovid shall never die but twinkle on forever. . . .”