By Tim Miller
This article brings jointly the non-public, communal, and nationwide political strands that interweave during the author's paintings from its beginnings and defines his position as a modern artist, activist, and homosexual guy.
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I have always used the memories of things passed to rewrite the ending of what is to come. I have done this from that first moment that I picked up my spiral binder at the edge of ten and somehow knew that the queer boy star of my story was not going to end up hanging by his neck from a beam in our family’s detached suburban garage. I write these stories of who I have been to imagine who I might become. Writing memoir is a fierce act of imagining the future. 8 Part 1 New York Years “It’s me—Tim Miller—jumping, and Barry Davison pushing the lawnmower.
Us. Them. The American way. The other way. Somehow these two big weird civilizations both excited me so much, full of gestures and ideals and the big time. And now everybody is supposed to sit tight and hope we don’t destroy the world. Us or them. The big joke. Here living in mondo cosmo Nuevo York I have never even met a Russian, except for the guys in the cabs that drive like nuts. Do they count? S. (that means us) will cool it with the big rip-off around the world and they’ll get off the can, those Politburo insurance salesmen, and we can all have a big party on a wheat field in Nebraska, and I’ll get to swap Thomas Wolfe for Vladimir Mayakovsky and make out with some Russian in a missile silo.
I can’t. . hey, slow down— [Projected slide: an East Village pizza shop] 29 : : I’d like a slice please. : What you do want? : I’d like a slice of pizza. Yeah, I’d like a slice. : Yeah, well what is it you want? : Can I have a slice please? One slice. I’d like a slice of that. Yeah. : What else? : I’d like a slice of that. : Is that what you want? That? Is that what you want? : I’d like a slice of him. : What? : I’d like a slice of him.