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photograph was created, showing a nude male body in a strange, ethereal way; stark and ghostly, daring and dangerous for revealing so much. This work seemed to be explicitly informed by the Aids crisis, and the impact it had – and continues to have – on queer communities. While DeSana was on his deathbed, he gave his estate to Simmons. Decades after his passing, Simmons is still creating new work.
“And then another woman on the subway who was a friend of mine already, said, ‘Oh, I’m getting the third floor of an old button factory in Soho, and I’ll ask if there’s another floor available.’ The other floor available was the fourth floor. It was 200 feet long, a long dark space with windows at each end. So we built a wall dividing it down the middle. He took one end, I took the end with the elevator. We got the place and we each set up a dark room.
“When we both became artists, given our backgrounds, it felt like an extraordinarily subversive and radical act, to leave our backgrounds. I wouldn’t say I was encouraged to be a doctor or a lawyer, I’d say I was encouraged to marry a doctor or a lawyer.“My work always comes from, first and foremost, my experience. I always say there are three Ps for my work to leave the studio, and to satisfy me: on a personal level, on a psychological level, and on a political level.
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