"Agnes has this laugh, or this cosmic giggle, but I wish to say she isn't any magician. She disavows magic adamantly. She hates magic and fetishism and superstition and I-ching. She says superstition is a belief in power, that there have been whole ages where art was only fetishism and that superstition is the enemy of art."

Wilder reading the second half of "Agnes Martin: Surrender & Solitude" by Jill Johnston

Jill Johnston (1929-2010) was a British-born American writer, cultural critic, and lesbian separatist activist. This piece was published in Lesbian Nation, a collection of essays she wrote as a long-time contributor to The Village Voice.

This is the first item of a selection of texts sent to us by Wilder Alison. Wilder Alison (b. 1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work includes painting and works on paper.

"The work of Agnes Martin has had a significant influence on me and I am delighted by this collision of two quite disparate queer/lesbian cultural figures of the 20th century (US)."

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