HAVING SEX WITH ARTISTS

Leslie Parke Primary One

A couple of weeks ago I dreamed that I had sex with Frank Stella under a boardwalk on Fire Island. We were both young. When I was the age I was in the dream I did this painting -- clearly the "love" child of our astral meeting: Last night I dreamed that Anish Kapoor was courting me. It was all quite elaborate. I can't wait to see how this will show up in my work. Harold Bloom would call this the "anxiety of influence", I call it "having sex with artists.