Forgive me for forgetting you.
You were meant to be forgotten.
"...not in the MoMA, the Whitney,
the Met, Art Institute of Chicago,
National Gallery of Art, Tate Modern,
Centre Pompidou, and others."*
"In major museums, women artists are
only 3 - 5% of permanent collections." **
Your fiery butterfly transformed in
seventeen minutes of pyrotechnics
retrospective now at ten places.**
Freedom and flight, ephemeral art,
messenger of the moment: If life is
a dance then get up and move. Pro-
vocative artist, not drawn at gender
lines what we learn in four decades.
I'm remembering to remember you.
Judy Chicago in 1974 preparing A Butterfly for Oakland. In the background is the Alameda County courthouse aka Moby Dick (via the Black Panthers - the building's belly has a jail)
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