Signature Collage

“Upside down, when you transfer the way things are to another dimension.” – SMW.

“Wilke with mom trying out wigs. ‘Your art mama’, Carolee would have hated that.” – SMW.

“I think I look like a tortured religious figure. Which tortured figured could you be? Online quizzes on which historical gay figure, lesbian trope you are.” – SMW with AC.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “I’m kind of counting on magic. Gift magic. Gift science magic. This is our kind of methodology.” – SMW.

“Pancake restaurant with HUGE cakes (something like 5 dinner plates big!). Could eat for the next few days. Photo taken when visited with mother.” – SMW.

“Hannah Wilke. One thing I learnt from her was to be my own art historian and cheering section. Self-narcissism when no one is looking at you.” – SMW.

“These people drinking champagne with the pictures of Hannah (Wilke) dying behind them. But it's not like they didn't care, they we also mourning. This has happened with other artists/authors, they died just before you found them, it feels like you missed them by a second.” – SMW.

“Performalist. It’s funny when your image becomes part of your work. Hannah did it because she was beautiful and that was troublesome for feminists, they thought it was easy, but it wasn’t. I’ve been objectified in different ways – my face not being good enough, always commenting on my weight (I think the unusual bits of me are part of what make me queer). Who makes them entitled to someone else’s physicality? Carolee always told me to go where the difficulty is, and that is (my) physicality. So, I made it central because people thought it was important somehow to draw my attention to. Sometimes I wish I could have been more handsome but then that was all I would’ve been known as. I can bridge the more and less beautiful.” – SMW.

“There is no content. It’s just aesthetics. As if practice itself is an elite state of mind.” – SMW.

“Self-portrait reading a porno magazine; taken with a timer in studio at Pratt (NY). When I met Carolee she asked was was my obssession. I said ‘sex and shit’. She told me to make 20 drawings in a week. They are all in Kansas. The materials are in the background. Porno on the floor.” – SMW.

“Wilke SOS series. I tried to emulate this with ‘Before Robin, After Hannah Wilke’. Robotic presence in this system (of archiving).” – SMW.

“Carl Andre shows up more than I’m comfortable with… I guess it’s something about the persistence of patriarchy and the need to keep marking over it…” – SMW as paraphrased by MH.

“Some meanings shouldn’t be translatable. Culturally hetero, mystified.” – SMW with AC.