EDITOR'S NOTE

Who are the witnesses for the prosecution? The palm trees, the pyramids? Is it ancient or modern Egypt on trial? "They just can't build 'em like they used to" or "monuments to personal vanity versus human-scaled city"? And was either critique inherent in the dream, or is this just a clever title--Wolff's waking mind imposing on the dream a judgment on Dynastic or Islamic Egypt that the dream never meant?

We can't find out. Maddeningly, the book showcasing her dream paintings omits the dreams that the paintings illustrate.

--Chris Wayan

SOURCE: Rita Wolff: Watercolours, 1974-1985 by Rita Wolff, 1986; St Martin's Press, NY (Plate XXIV). Plate's title is Witnessess for the Prosecution, but the introduction simply calls it Cairo.

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