Elderism #2
October 8th, 2008In the catalog to her currently-touring exhibition, 96 year-old sculptor Louise Bourgeois states:
“The spiral–I love the spiral–represents control and freedom.”
A fairly innocuous statement, were it not preceded by these five sentences:
“The spiral is important to me. It is a twist. As a child, after washing
the tapestries in the river, I would turn and twist and ring them with
three others or more to ring the water out. Later I would dream of
getting rid of my father’s mistress. I would do it in my dreams by
ringing her neck.”