Artist, Marion Scemama: My name is Marion Scemama. I'm an artist, photographer, filmmaker. The most important moment of my life is when I met David Wojnarowicz.
In December 1983, I met him because I was working for a French magazine and we had this proposal to make a story about the East Village. Because it was a place really of making things, doing things, painting, writing. It was really unbelievably free. David was really a figure in the East Village because he was so loving and supporting other artists.
I love this image with the blue sky, the clouds. It's part of a series of four paintings inspired by the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water. A lot of the image he paints comes from photograph, and a lot of them are also about dreams he had.
Wind is the breeze, but it's also what makes things move. You have this curtain moving in the wind, and David has that when he was living in Peter Hujar's loft. I remember this huge curtain he had that blew in the wind. Also, there's a baby, just born, that is screaming because if you want to live, you start with a scream. Everybody started with a scream, or you're dead.
In the East Village, I was surrounded by some anarchist, and that's what attracted me to David. He was radical in his art. But David is not just anger. He's also love, he's also giving, he's also supporting other people. He has a lot of empathy.