Philosophical sketches

“Femininity makes me happy in general.” – SMW.

Email exchange – 12.04.20. “I had to document it all, even with others, partners, etc. because gay pornography figures and has figured in my life so I have to put my own body where I see the bodies of others…” – SMW.

“Is art our job? A psychologist got annoyed with me. ‘Art is a choice’, they said.” – SMW. “I would have stabbed them. The fact that you love what you are told that loving what you do makes it a vocation is a neoliberal brainwashing. Work, little capital slave. No! It’s still labour. It’s still hard and difficult to engage with at times, there’s no higher calling.” – AC.

Rijksacademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “20 years ago, sentimental without irony was not accepted. Feelings, no no no.” – Anon. “The rejection of knowledge production as cerebral. Spells, they bring out feelings.” – Anon.

“How do people go a month without sex?” – AC.

“Sometimes I think that what I do has more sense accumulatively. It makes more sense collectively.” – SMW.

“(Finding out these buried works from oblivion) is strange but also gives me comfort, as we are doing something with them now.” – SMW.

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “… a crash course on pricing artwork.” – N/A. “I always try to counteract. What is the actual value of a piece of paper?” – SMW. “I think I am a bit punky inside my head.” – SMW.

“When I speak with you (AC), I remember how it was to be your age and how older artists treated me.” – SMW. “It's important to not say the smart things. That's the point, if we all saw the same things... just shoot me.” – SMW and AC.

“Death is a career move. I didn’t say that, but I always liked it.” – SMW.