INTO OUR FIRST WORLD

Drawing on the landscapes, images and symbols of a suburban childhood and her Eurasian heritage, Johnson offers a series of reflections on femininity and cultural inheritance, diaspora and dislocation, family and home. The title Into Our First World is taken from the first poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: Burnt Norton. Like the poem, this work is much concerned with the experience of being in and out of time, of being here and elsewhere, as consciousness and memory drift, roam, lapse and wander.