
WILLIAM MORTENSEN – Fragment 1943

I’m 6 days into working 18 days in a row // it hasn’t been too bad but I’m quite tired // going to try and make some art tonight, as well as cook dinner and make mulled wine // I want to visit Wellington sometime soon
I feel so bad in my body this week // and v self destructive idk // just want to stay in bed and not eat until I’m ready for people to maybe see me again

Mark Rothko, No. 20, 1957,
oil on canvas
signed and dated verso u.l., maroon oil paint, “Mark Rothko / 1957”
233.0 (h) x 193.0cm
Unframed 233.0 (h) x 193.0x 4.5 (d) cm Purchased 1981 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
(Note: our old quite lovely orangey scan has been replaced with this newer, deeper intense red one, which I believe is more accurate)
I wanna make art about some bad feelings but I don’t want anyone I know to know about those feelings. But I also don’t want people to think I’m like… not actually feeling those feelings
when my ex boyfriend said my artwork was “spooky and redundant” – that’s the best thing anyone has said to me