Dream

“A pumpkin is a vegetable, like a fruit, the produce of a plant meant for continuing the species.” – SMW.

“I made a book of photos of the images from this series, with the big pumpkin photo on the front of the book, wrapping around to the back. So in the front you have my naked body squinting in the sun, and the back is this pumpkin.” – SMW.

“If I had had the urge to shit I probably would not have done that, because for instance there was nothing to wipe my ass with except for plants which I was unfamiliar with so they could have caused an allergic reaction I suppose which I was aware of.” – SMW.

“In the series, you are often holding a cigarette. In one of the photographs, you also urinate into the vegetation. Does smoking/urinating in nature mean something concrete in this piece?” – AC. “This also goes back to Hannah Wilke. Who peed in a photo in the 70s which she made into a conceptual art work with text from a male writer. A very complex gesture, which she was so good at. Urinating and smoking are both natural acts, so it had to do with just being natural and human and animal in nature. Cigarettes, when I did smoke, felt very artificial although smoking is such a pleasureable activity. I used to smoke about a pack a day for 10 years.” – SMW.

“Water evaporates and can be contained…” – SMW.