playinginthewaves

Self-portrait | 2015

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” ~ Jane Wilson

1st photo: JANE FREILICHER AND JANE WILSON, WATER MILL, NEW YORK, JULY 1962. PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN JONAS GRUEN.

"I am envious of certain people's intelligence, education, and imagination ...  My blind spots glare at me daily. But 'success,' not so much. I know it's naïve, politically nefarious, and/or patently untrue to say that 'the cream rises to the top' or whatever; obviously there are plenty of under-recognized geniuses and, conversely, many writers who are way overrated by the mainstream (this may even be a good working definition of the mainstream: that which habitually overrates the mediocre, the Doxa). But for whatever reason -- wishful thinking maybe -- I tend to think that the truly important, original, and strange work does get recognized, does get found, by those who need to recognize it and find it. That doesn't mean prizes and advances and real estate in The New York Times and so on. But it may mean the right readership. Though it may take time -- a lot of time -- and time can bury people, too."  -Maggie Nelson

Eve Sedgwick