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Its material presence, form, and title evoke the makeshift memorials of tied-together shoes flung over telephone wires; fire escapes; and the possibilities and failures of cities to provide escape and upward mobility. In addition to collective experiences of urban life, <i>Scape</i> seems to reference Ward’s memory of a childhood refuge after he moved from Jamaica to New Jersey at age twelve: “The only place I had that was my own was in the attic. It was this little, tiny space. 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