Although Borges was raised by English speaking parents, attended high school in Switzerland, and specified that he wanted to be buried in Geneva, his roots were deeply embedded in Buenos Aires. These 6 works were created with no brush work at all. I poured a mix of water and India ink on a paper lying flat on the floor and tilted the surface in every which way for gravity to force the flow. The unexpected ways the mixture of ink and water may flow provide a metaphor for how our own roots are never a straight line.