Dream

“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.

“Significance of where am I?” – SMW.

“‘Morning, fuck me up my ass’. Wilke and bubblegums. As far as genius goes, she is whatever that means. I was drawing teeth all the time. I heard that if a man has a dream about their teeth fall out, it’s got to do with impotence. Men dream a lot of things that have to do with impotence. I am not looking forward to being impotent, cause I like to come. But sex is not penetrative to me. Andrea Dworkin. Paul Preciado.” – SMW. “Tricky when you get Butler or US references. I am happy when people do the same thing out of the (colonial) bubble. Imperial knowledge. Dali, Lorca and Bunuel in love in the Spanish almost-Renaissance.” – AC and 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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Bisexual beef and self-suckers. Dad birthdays. Inches magazine. False bottom drawer with heterosexual porn. It didn’t make a difference – I just wanted to know what sex was. Christine’s anal fever. Hetero porn is still quite problematic, but for gay men they have to watch themselves to learn about themselves. Maybe it’s different now. But I learnt a lot, they were affirmative.” – SMW.

“Something about pink. Need.” – SMW.

“Letter to Angie Marks. I never sent it to her. She was always known for being beautiful. I went to Kansas and said: you look beautiful as always. She said: you look like you always do. Conflicted relationship. Something to separate with my past. Never got sent.” – SMW.

...when the twin towers were still there…

“Me and my dad (Ragen), showing him a drawing of “the prodigal son returns” from art school (Pratt). My dad makes art for himself, and for us. So did my great-grandmother. When it was necessary for everything to be called feminist art in the 70s for the movement, I was already familiar with women art. My examples were never people who were in the market, and it was never my intent.” – SMW.

“Kansas landscape. There’s something romantic about the emptiness of space that I grew up in. Istory. Herstory. Horsestory. Horseterical.” – SMW and AC.