Celebration of Subjectivity

I had been writing Memory of Fire for a long time, and the more I wrote the more I entered into the stories I was telling. I was already having trouble distinguishing past from present: what had happened was happening, happening all around me, and writing was my way of striking out and embracing. However, history books supposedly are not subjective.

I mentioned this to Jose Coronel Urtecho: in this book I’m writing, however you look at it, backwards or forwards, in the light or against it, my loves and quarrels can be seen at a single glance.

And on the banks of the San Juan river, the old poet told me that there is no fucking reason to pay attention to the fanatics of objectivity:

"Don’t worry" he said to me. "That’s how it should be. Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. They are scared of human pain. They don’t want to be objective, it’s a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer."

by Eduardo Galleano, The Book of Embraces

"In a certain way, works of art would make fools of us were it not that their fascination is proof - unverifiable, though undeniable - that this paralysis of the intelligence combines with the most luminous certainty: what the certainty is I do not know."
- Jean Genet

winter-spring 2012
two dance journals - Contact Quarterly and CORD - have published several of my drawings in their winter/spring print issues.

"in and out conch whispering in my ear"
by Wendy Shuster





















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"folds fall open and close"
by Wendy Shuster

















winter 2011
This charcoal painting of mine was selected to accompany an article in Contact Quarterly Dance & Improvisation Journal.
Please visit CQ to read this fine article written by a dancer/choreographer/teacher about dance/movement explorations with prisoners.

The article is entitled "Surrender."  You'll find it here:  CQ Journal website.

A Global Democratic Movement Is About to Pop By Paul Hawken, Orion Magazine
Tuesday 01 May 2007
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050107EC.shtml

Something earth-changing is afoot among civil society - a significant social movement is eluding the radar of mainstream culture.