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Connie Bostic
Unfound
Oil on wood door
A door based on Thomas Wolfe’s phrase “a stone, a leaf, an unfound door” from the opening paragraph of Look Homeward, Angel.
Connie Bostic is a UNCA alumna, Fairview resident, and mother of five. She earned her B.A. from UNCA and her M.A. from Western Carolina University. Connie's work has been exhibited regionally in solo and group shows. She has also completed four large-scale murals in Asheville. Since her early teens she has been an avid reader of the works of Thomas Wolfe.
At the age of fourteen and a half, I stumbled across Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel in the Spindale Public Library. Finding Wolfe changed everything for me. I memorized pages and tortured every one around me with quotations. Any young man unfortunate enough to ask me for a Sunday afternoon date found himself negotiating the treacherous curves of Highway 74 on his way to a decrepit old house in Asheville where some writer used to live.
I was told when I went to college that I would out-grow Wolfe. I never have. His exuberance, his depths of despair, and his exultant expressions of joy have never lost their ability to move me. The only change in my perception of Wolfe over the years is that now I see more of his humor.
