Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 (2025)
Shakespeare is a Wound
2023 – 24
18 gouache on paper some cut and pasted
47 x 34 cm (framed, each part)
18 1/2 x 13 3/8 in
‘I did not understand when she said he said Shakespeare was a wound. She had a way of saying, – Uhm, and stroking her throat and letting her right hand eventually find her necklace, the choreography of reflection. She said that toward the end of his life he would phone her late, utterly drunk, and she would plead,
-John, why are you doing this to yourself?
Darryl Pinckney on Elizabeth Hardwick on John Berryman
A Note on Shakespeare
Harold Pinter
‘Shakespeare writes of the open wound and, through him, we know it open and know it closed. We tell when it ceases to beat and tell it at its highest peak of fever‘, Harold Pinter in ‘A Note on Shakespeare’ in Granta 59: