Rolled Paintings

Email exchange – 21.05.20. “I want to stress that gift giving is a big part of what I do. I sometimes think I want to be paid to give things away. We should offer visitors/press people etc. free ‘I am a horse’ buttons and bring over some of my ‘Profeminist WHITE FLOWERS’ books, maybe even to give as gifts and to sell. Deborah you must have one of these as well, I will do a horse signature for you! Also, as Radna said, “emotions, feelings, thoughts, relationships and behavior” are my real materials for art. I don’t like to think of myself as a visual artist because the things that mean the most and are the most determinant in my life are invisible, like perfume.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “You know you know it, you just don’t know how you know it.” – AC. “Or you don’t trust that you know it, cause we have been told not to trust those feelings.” – Anon. “When are we allowed to trust any feelings?” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[…] to archive in order to get viewers into this headspace. anon: The longer you are an artist, the more important it becomes that you cannot remember everything.” – SMW. “Is that desirable, or is it a threat? Maybe both?” – AC.

GSA meeting – 08.02.21. “[...] names that didn’t make it into telling stories.” – MH.

SMW & AC inventorying session – 08.10.20. “Maybe it doesn’t take 20 years to understand the work, as Pina Montano says, but even to face the work.” – SMW. “I’m making an executive decision that the archive will have inconsistencies.” – SMW. “How do you look at work that you made 20 years ago and don’t like or feel comfortable with? – AC. “Or relate to […] I don’t see the point in destroying things. They had a function.” – SMW. “It took me 10 years to make, my whole teenage years (‘I’m Proud of Myself’ sculpture), and I didn’t know I was making it. I was living. The accumulation is something I appreciate.” – SMW.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “Madness you respect.” – AC.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Artists over 70 with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families normal.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “Cold cases – they are closed. They never found a killer. They never found the archive.” –SMW, MH, RR, IA.

Email exchange – 22.09.20. “I am in such an art world bubble sometimes, even feminist art world bubble, that it is still fairly new and challenging to answer questions about my positioning in the general society at large in a materialist feminist sense.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “Our archiving is sharing, it’s like opening up a heart.” – SMW.