Brian Chikwava - One Dandelion Seed-head
Dad,
I’m putting this down by Dictaphone, that old thing that belonged to grandpa.
Writing artist - Brian Chikwava and sound recordings spoken/performed by participants during the York/NEW YORK installation at the Writing Encounters symposium, September 2008
Writers Description
Dandelion is the final letter, a Dictaphone letter, the kind that any parent who has mostly brought up a family far from his native land dreads. It’s author, a person of a hybrid identity, belongs to both the British and another foreign culture yet does not quite fit into either; in London he’s on the edge, while with the custodians of his other inherited cultural background, his family, he has a less than ideal relationship and little inclination to make connections with the place where the family originally came from.