done with Dictee

OK, so I'm not really done with Dictee, but have finished reading it. I found the ending to be very sad and somewhat wistful, with the girl at the well (Persephone?) and the child looking out the window. I think, maybe, some of the sadness comes from knowing Cha's fate.

Hoa was telling me at her graduation party last Saturday that she created a mixed genre piece about Cha that sounded very cool (if also creepy and a bit sad, too). When she was in New York recently, Hoa went to the block where Cha was raped and murdered in 1982, and took a photograph every step of the way along the block. She then had slides made, as well as made two recordings, one of Hoa reading Cha's poem "Aller," which begins: "Discard. Every memory. Of. / Even before they could." The other recording was just the sound of her breathing. She then played all three simultaneously.

I think it's an interesting project/performance piece, and I'd like to see Hoa doing it. She says she plans to take better photos for a future version of the work. I'd also be interested to know how she sees this fitting into a larger critique/understanding of Cha's work. One thing to remember, Cha was primarily known as a filmmaker and performance artist during her lifetime. Dictee was published within days of her death, and she only became known as an experimental poet posthumously.