Force Of Nature

WAITS- BURG - Bette Burgoyne's idea of doing a drawing 11 inches wide and 10 feet long had several sources of inspiration.

There was M.C. Escher's "Metamorphosis," the mindbending left-to-right journey of a crossword like text that changes into blocks, lizards, a beehive, fish, a flock of birds, a mountain town, a chess game and finally back to a text.

There were the Chinese landscape paintings that unroll from top to bottom and are so long they could only be displayed in a very high stairwell.

And there was the Women's Torah, a 62-panel scroll created by an international community of women an...