Viewing page 14 of 20

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

13

EY: Did you have snakes in your hair?
MM: Well, I made [[strikethrough]] it. [[/strikethrough]] them. I was also doing sculpture at the time, and I used coat hangers and wax and I made this absolutely vile thing that I wore on my head. I went to the library and I looked up drawings of Medusa and I made my face up to look like Medusa and literally did look like her so nobody would dance with me until I washed my face off. And afterwards, so the costume wouldn't be a total loss, I did a painting. It's one of my favorite paintings still. I've always been fascinated by ancient Greece, and it wasn't until [[strikethrough]] actually [[/strikethrough]] I read the book by Jack Kerouac, remember, when Dr. No was talking about the effect that comic books had on people? I remembered that when I was a child [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] my parents always bought Journal American, which is no longer in existence. You're probably too young to remember it existed [[strikethrough]]in newspaper form[[/strikethrough]]. There was an article on it every week, and I think I started reading it when I was eight, or nine, and there was always a story about a woman who [[strikethrough]] goes [[/strikethrough]] went into an antique [[strikethrough]] jewelry [[/strikethrough]] store and looks at a gem and gets transported back in time to ancient Greece or Egypt or some Ancient something, and suddenly it gave me a whole new perspective on what I was doing and this fascination. Not that everyone else isn't fascinated by ancient Greece. It's [[strikethrough]] isn't the [[/strikethrough]] an incredibly fascinating subject; [[strikethrough]] it's [[/strikethrough]] the entire ancient world. It's not anything that's peculiar to me, except for a period of time I used it in my work. I wanted to be an ancient Greek for years. When I was twelve I remember I went to the library to take out a book on how to make a Greek costume. I don't think I ever [[strikethrough]] did it [[/strikethrough]] made one, but I knew how to. I can't remember if you pronounce it kiton or chiton or whatever the dress was, and you hold it together with clasps and it folds over in the front. [[strikethrough]]But[[/strikethrough]] It was always fascinating; [[strikethrough]]It was just[[/strikethrough]] something that interested me. Unless you turn it into art, who cares? It's not simply a decorative element, and also having been to Greece ten years before I did the paintings, (that article was wrong in the sense that it sound as if I'd spent two or three years in Greece - I didn't. I went to