“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”
-Susan Sontag
I saw the above quote projected during a performance of Kristin Marting et al’s Lush Valley at HERE in September. It’s come up in my mind many times since then.
I took this photograph while in residence at the Millay Colony. It’s a photo peering through a tear in the screen of one of the windows on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s writing cabin, which was locked up and required a fee of $16 dollars to enter. You can just make out the chair and desk where she sat to do her timed writing every morning. It was said that everything inside was left just as it was on the day she died. There are many reasons to be suspicious of this claim.
“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.”
-Susan Sontag
