"Often when you're in the process of realizing an image, it's going somewhere else. If that tangent starts going off in a place that feels more exciting, that's what I go with."
"Ritual & Revolution" (1998)
"Ritual & Revolution," 1998
Installation view, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Installation view, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"There was a period of time when I just had to get off the wall. I just couldn’t take it. I just didn’t want to make one more 16x 20 black-and-white photograph that was matted with the black frame around it. I started printing on cloth—on sheer, diaphanous cloth—and hanging those. There’d be rows and rows and rows of cloth with images printed on them, hanging in the gallery space."
-Carrie Mae Weems
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