Dream

“I think facing the camera was intuitive. Robin was photographing and I wanted to face him. Because I love him. So I was showing love to the camera.” – SMW.

“I think part of why I faced the camera was as always to give back to the women who came before me who got naked. My genital/penis is an important part of that. Not that I revere it, not any more than other parts of my body (I think I revere my ass/hole), but it’s a gender marker.” – SMW.

“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.

“PUMPKIN. HONEY. LOVE. CHÉRIE. PASS THE SHERRY DRINK THE MOON. // 17.05.20. Was it the fresh ‘naivety’ air wrapped around my orange flesh? // Was it a rabid spinderella story? I can’t tell. you hide always all too well // among the countryside vegetation // pretending you’re one of them // those witches who know how to dwell: // where a cry out is hardly a die out // a compass for cracking // impudent laughter // under evening suns // like an open walnut. // Lavender spells of fortune fall onto your universe: // soap reimagined tastes like love. // Who cares what Friedrich thought? A man against the world is an archetype for the flowerless.” – AC.

“Metaphorically when you turn your back it means you are hiding something. Maybe. Perhaps…” – SMW.

“I wanted to be in nature, like a tree, and I suppose I always imagine a tree facing us with a face, it’s stupid really, anthropomorphizing and all that. A flower (the petals and center of the petals) also seems like a face…” – SMW.