A person's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened. — Albert Camus

Caroline Wampole is a writer, artist, musician, and performer. In a previous life she played bass and sang in the rock-funk band Big Soul, and wrote the lyrics for their hit song in French, “Le Brio,” which helped the band earn a platinum record in France. She has also been an art teacher, improv theater director, documentary filmmaker, and expat painter in Paris. Her essays have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and the Forge Literary Magazine. She is currently writing a memoir about how playing in a rock band led her to her true home of art.