Dream

“Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings always seemed to be about confronting and conquering nature. I guess this is open to interpretation and I don’t know that much about it. I’ve never gone that deep into it… I want to be part of nature. Not confront it.” – SMW.

GSA inventorying session – 10.09.20. “I was a bad vegan.” – SMW.

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

“Those images were taken at a good friend’s house on the island of Moen in Denmark. My friend was in the house while Robin and I took those photos. My friend is a curator and her girlfriend is an artist. I invited her girlfriend to join me in the images but she declined. I am not sure what this meant. She is also a body artist.” – SMW.

“But there is still tension between genders and sexualities and all the dynamics involved, race and class as well, everything that makes up intersectionalities…” – SMW.

“One of those philosophers everybody tells you to like, that I actually like. Killed by a bus, relational figure to Gaudí? I feel like very often artists die young. Yes, and it could have been me at any point. You have to go on, if you want to. Life is not a requirement. But it definitely isn’t a choice when it comes to a bus (or maybe it is).” – SMW with AC.

“Works from the 60s. He was from Kansas too. I don't love the work but I heard that he was maybe gay. There was this extra mysterious layer.” – SMW.