Comments on: Unknown/Untitled

By: ruth kahn

ruth kahn — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:43:27 +0000

I remember when my mother died going through such ephemera: the pedigree of Honey the much loved Great Dane I never met. My father’s High School Diploma. Original receipts from the 60 year old patio furniture I had just got repainted. A silver egg cup set from their wedding with a note inside the box to write a thank-you note. Most of the papers I threw away. Alas I will NOT be famous enough for anyone to care. It felt strange, sad – Insanely “grown-up”- lonely and free.

By: renny

renny — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:40:24 +0000

I have the letters that my father sent my mother from overseas during WWII. It’s tied in a ribbon, so unlike my mother. She saved them for 60+ years. I’ve never read them.

By: Anne Walsh

Anne Walsh — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:29:54 +0000

Dodie, I read that book too! I loved books about nurses. Also, bios of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Martha Graham, etc…(wild card was a bio of Miles Standish ??? – it turned out that 20 years later my parents bought a house in Los Angeles that had been built for the set of a silent film called The Courtship of Miles Standish.) Matias has been to that house many times

By: Matias Viegener

Matias Viegener — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:29:39 +0000

This is a jewel of a post. Dodie, Anne, Eileen, Dodie’s mother, Joan of Arc and Billie Jean King. I can’t look at my mother’s boxes of photographs either. They would sweep me away. I guess if you think of the sum total of everything as an ongoing archive then nothing will be swept away, but I have my doubts.

By: Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:35:25 +0000

The documentary, with Earhart's journal can be found here.

By: Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:48:06 +0000

When I was a child I read everything I could find on famous women in the children’s section of our local public library. I still remember one favorite, titled _Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Doctor._ I also dreamed of being a ballerina, even though I never had a dance lesson and was so far from ballerina material. I think the appeal of the ballerina was that people looked at her, people really looked at her.

By: Anne Walsh

Anne Walsh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:48:56 +0000

I have not stopped posting nor have I been censored. I paused for a two-week trip to Ethiopia. I am back now and will begin again soon. BTW Ana Mendieta’s death in 1985 was from a fall from a 34th-story window. Her then-husband Carl Andre was suspected of pushing her, but was acquited by a judge. I found a NYT review of a book concerning her death and their relationship. I’m scared to read it. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/books/a-death-in-the-art-world.html?pagewanted=1

Dodie I am so touched by your post. I want to say that though I missed Raimundas’s talk, I agree with the idea that some artworks (and spirits of some dead artists) exert a psychic pull on the guardians of their fate. The best explanation I have for how Visits with Joseph Cornell got made is that Cornell himself brought us toward him. Chris and I were deep at work on Yves Klein at the Menil Collection, and Cornell got in our face. He self-selected.

By: Renny Pritikin

Renny Pritikin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:05:16 +0000

pbs had a documentary on amelia earhart this week that i caught. it showed her scrapbook, from when she was a teenager. it was almost all newspaper cutouts of achievements by women, ie first judge, first doctor, et al. From 100 years ago…at age 15 or so…seems like an echo of this wonderful piece…

By: Frank Lostaunau

Frank Lostaunau — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:46:32 +0000

correction: response
correction: missing anna mendieta lately…i hear she was murdered…

By: Frank Lostaunau

Frank Lostaunau — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:44:27 +0000

too bad anne is not posting anymore…i miss you anne…i guess somebody thought that you asked a question that didn’t deserve a respons…other than silence

i’ve been anna mendieta lately…i hear she was murdered…got pushed out a window?