Swoon Interview - Page 2

“I like it that this stuff decays.
I really love brick, and I wouldn’t
ultimately want to destroy it.”


“Darius
Jones - Don’t Let Go.” Wythe Street Near the Williamsburg Bridge.
11/17/03

I ask about her pasting technique.

“All I really do is cut a piece of paper, and then I roll it from
the top down. And then I just roll it back out. I just have it as a
very fragile, like shaking around, all cut-up piece of paper. And I
use wallpaper paste, as you can see that’s why this stuff comes
down so easily, because wallpaper paste is meant for indoors. I kind
of like that, I like it that this stuff decays. I really love brick,
and I wouldn’t ultimately want to destroy it. I only like to work
with it temporarily.”


Main Street, November 17 - painted brown.
“I see that they painted that wall brown, and it looks horrible.
Everything is gone the whole thing is brown. And to me that is so much
worse vandalism than anything else that was done to that wall. Because
it’s brick, I mean look at all the colors and textures, and all of
the sense that you get of that building. Now they’ve just painted
that whole building brown. It looks really horrible. It’s kind of
deadening, you know.”

The Fulton Ferry building on Main Street from the Manhattan Bridge.
11/17/03


Decaying paper. DUMBO 6/15/03 (fragment of another of the Grandfather
papercut print I think)
“I try to create something that has a kind of a life cycle. It
goes up, and has this whole blossoming and decay.”
Front Street, DUMBO. 11/27/03
Dunham Place, Williamsburg 11/26/03
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©2003 Michael Natale

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