“Acting is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit.”
The dearly missed Philip Seymour Hoffman was born on this day in 1967.
Acrylic and cut-and-pasted paper on wood, two panels. 1987. 6 x 8’ (182.9 x 243.8 cm).
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Wind, a part of ‘The Four Elements,’ is considered one of David Wojnarowicz’s most personal pieces. Through this installation, Wojnarowicz created a work of art that embodied each of the four elements. Wind, however, alsopays tribute to his friend and renowned photographer, Peter Hujar— completed right before his death to AIDS.
