Action undertaken one morning on Moen Island, Denmark while SMW and RWM were on a weekend trip to visit SMW’s best friend Frederikke Hansen. Series named after a large pumpkin in the garden. – MH.
Listings connecting to the grouping of work “Big Pumpkin Series” (90)
00105-2009…
Photographs
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00137-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“Rural scents can turn you into Cinderella or // sink your carriage in the dirt. // S-h-e smokes industrial cigarettes. // Humans turned to pumpkins. // Take the other path, they said. We are not all made to be pretty little red riding hoods with plenty of food to appease the masters. // We are all not that organic.” – AC.
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00169-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00116-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings always seemed to be about confronting and conquering nature. I guess this is open to interpretation and I don’t know that much about it. I’ve never gone that deep into it… I want to be part of nature. Not confront it.” – SMW.
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00148-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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Hannah Wilke
2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“Hannah used to talk about being spontaneous and I think this is mainly what it is all about, being spontaneous and not planning too much when working. Like grooving with the energies of the universe will provide ultimate meaning.” – SMW.
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Carolee Schneemann,…
2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“I was just reminded of interviewer Charlie Rose asking why performance artist Karen Finley (she does all kinds of things) smeared her breasts with liquid chocolate during a performance, and she answered that she also smeared her elbows with the chocolate. Carolee Schneemann wanted her elbows to have the same priority as her genitals, as her vulva, etc. and when she was in art school it was okay to paint from a nude female model and for Carolee to pose for her male co-students, but when she did a nude self portrait painting with legs up and spread then it was considered obscene.” – SMW.
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00159-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“I always say I want to be like nature to women’s culture, instead of that old chestnut, ‘women are nature, men are culture’ things are way more complex than this (starting with the fact that there is more than just women and men and spectrums and continuums must be taken account of). But yes, I want to be part of nature and that in relation to women’s culture, which I understand to be in the best sense more of a symbiosis with the world and planet and not a confrontation…” – SMW.
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00191-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
“Labor is such an important subject, it reminds me of that phrase ‘who will clean up after the revolution?’ Yes, who? And what kind of a revolution am I gunning for?” – SMW.
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00106-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00138-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00170-2009…
Photographs
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00117-2009…
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00149-2009…
Photographs
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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00181-2009…
Photographs
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2009
Image of Studio object
Photographer: Robin Wassink-Murray
Location: Moen Island, Denmark at Frederikke Hansen’s former house.
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