At the Whitney
Happy is the museum show with at least
one work of art charismatic enough to
get people talking.
–Carter Ratcliff
When Jay DeFeo finished
The Rose her problem was
How to preserve it. It had to be
Sealed and stored away
So she could die and they could
Unearth it after, and display
It at the Whitney.
And if we could unearth
Jay DeFeo we could tell her
She's famous now, but don't.
It's not fair to be constantly
Bothering the dead
The way The Rose bothers
Me, makes me want to be other,
Moves one of my backbones
A little to the left. DeFeo's left
Hand didn't know what her
Right hand was doing. It was
Right, what it did. It was blindly
Drawing down fire.
– deb bogen