![]() ![]() I began to use text like “this may not be heaven but Peter hangs out here” in my drawings and paired it with crude images. I realized that graffiti has psychological depth because when someone’s alone and releasing on the toilet, they’re also releasing from the subconscious. The graffiti I found was very raw and poignant. At the time, I was a graduate student at Yale School of Art, when Yale had an all-male undergraduate program and the Vietnam War and draft were happening. For instance, I became fascinated with scatological graffiti after reading an article in The New York Times in 1963 about Edward Albee taking the title Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf from bathroom graffiti. ![]() I loved to draw, paint and explore my imagination, and many things influenced me. Even before I understood what that meant. Judith Bernstein: I wanted to be an artist from as far back as I could remember. Emi Fontana: When did you know that you wanted to be an artist? What or who inspired you then? Who or what inspires you now? ![]()
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