Philosophical sketches

“Prestige drives me crazy.” – SMW.

SMW, MH and AC inventorying session – 01.10.20. “I’m so happy every time we have a conversation and I have my laptop nearby. You know so much, you are like a walking encyclopaedia.” – AC. “I am happy to share. Nobody used to want the information I had.” – SMW. “I am above the mysterious artist myth.” – AC. “People haven’t been throwing money at me.” – SMW.

“I want to be a public sexual intellectual.” – SMW. “The second best thing to sex is talking about it.” – AC.

“God before God had a name. Before God was God.” – SMW with AC. “(…) It has nothing to do with religion, but spirituality. I was trying to see what these words meant to me.” – SMW.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “I love archives. Your system, and your story”. – IA.

Inventorying session + invited archivist (IA) meeting – 15.09.20. “Tiny bits and pieces, this is what we are up against.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “To make symbols is like a release of energy.” […] – SMW. “In Hungarian kindergarten, as children, we didn't know how to read yet, they gave you a symbol. I had a poisonous mushroom, my brother had a food bowl. It was a symbol instead of a name as a way to communicate.” – Anon.

“I was already obsessed with my blood, a lot of these paintings say that, cause I was diagnosed positive in 2006. ‘SMW Untitled’ gets boring very quickly, you have to be careful.” – SMW.

“Did I ask for your opinion? Stay in your body.” – AC. “Stay in your lane.” – SMW.

“I’ve always been involved with sex as a kind of truth.” – SMW. “My body is almost a language to the research (the sex), which is so important to my life.” – SMW. “I was told that due to C19 having all cruising places closed, that the lesser sex I was having would feel more intense, but not really.” – SMW. “Having less just feels like having less!” – AC.