The title of this piece, “Captured Letter from Paris,” refers to the African-American author Richard Wright, one of many artist-activists who was targeted by the FBI because of their communist affiliations in the 1950s and 60s. Wright’s transatlantic written correspondence from Paris was intercepted by the bureau, and Cyrus takes this as the source material for making the work. Using torn denim strips that are glued together, Cyrus deconstructs the document, resulting in a quilt-like composition that is restructured around the redactions within the FBI memo. As the artist has stated, the technique is similar to how children take things apart and reassemble them in order to gain a better understanding or a new point of view.