Signature Collage

Inventorying session – 27.08.20. “I know it's not Lorca, but for me he is. I was distracted. I am not much into philosophers. Yeah, Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin. Everybody idolised them, so I stayed away from them.” – SMW.

“Significance of where am I?” – SMW.

“That was my first exhibition – my bedroom. Ended up performing there with Carolee 16 years later. At that time I had no idea I would be working with her in that way. Spatial memory. Always trying to teach my friend something.” – SMW and AC.

“I never thought I would have any help with anything.” – SMW.

“Hannah Wilke and Selma Butter. To relate her body to her mother’s body. Intergenerational flux of art and bodies. We are all in our own timelines, and we overlap or parallel with each other. Me is just lonely.” – AC and SMW.

“You can’t escape white culture, but it’s worth pursuing the idea as a method, specially for white people. I’m privileged and white, but that is not the end of the conversation. What comes after is much harder. I am not above privilege but I need to speak of it. Crushed under the wave of history, and old people. The expectation to live up to the work that has been done, without causing damage. Is that even possible? Positionality of the artist in history.” – SMW with AC.

“My mother always asked how I had so much mental energy, as she couldn’t understand where it was coming from. It was desperation. It is a very human emotion. Growing up in Topeka was difficult but glamorous, in the sense that no one would ever come out of there. As if no one would.” – SMW.

“Birth certificate. Rewrite your own existence? I don’t think that ever changes, the baby feeling, the inner child. Almost like an onion, the baby is the center and then you have these layers. Separate my identity from who I was at that point.” – SMW and AC.

“Construction of your own history. What you remember and what you don’t remember. The history that I feel part of is abstract expression.” – SMW and AC.