"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"May Days Long Forgotten" (2003)
"May Days Long Forgotten," 2003
Production stills, 7:30min
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Production stills, 7:30min
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated."
-Carrie Mae Weems



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