Four empty champagne bottles were found in the living room, and many more on ice. The bedroom was in disarray.
She was a relatively young artist, and hungry. "Hope you can make" and "Hope to see you there" were sometimes written over the invitations to her shows.
When starting, as a painter, she was very impressed by Mondrian and also El Lissitzky, who had claimed to leave behind the bourgeois painting: which works like a window through which you may look into a better and more beautiful world and mentally escape.
She caught herself touching different parts of her body, with her finger, expecting there to be buttons there, feeling like if she touched her body a certain way, in a certain place, it would activate something: a transformation, an energy, a power that was sleeping there before, lying dormant.
"Linda... Liebling!”
“Yeah?”
“Step on the other side of the fence."
"Ah... you want me in the shot?"
"Ja. Ja, ja ja ja.
And--
lose the clothes."
NAKED BY THE WINDOW
Alex Turgeon/Susan Ploetz
February 7, 2013
Exhibition Opening: 8 pm
Reading: 9 pm