If there’s another artist with whom performer Jill Scott has an affinity, it’s writer Jorge Luis Borges. Both create poetic, archetypal dream pieces. Both utilize timeless and metaphorical images of nature and primordial existence, in the process enveloping the world in myth. And both are rooted in the geographic peripheries of the Western cultural tradition.

Born in Australia, Scott left there in 1972. For ten peripatetic years, she has studied and produced art, making videotapes and performances, traveling and exhibiting widely. As I write this she is performing in Europe, en route to an