Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin

I Just Died at Birth, no. 8 of 16, from the series, Do Not Abandon Me

2009-2010

Digital print

Not on view

THERE
WAS NO
ROOM FOR ME
ANYMORE YOU SQ
UEEZED ME OUT OF THAT
PLACE LIKE I WAS NEVER
WANTED NERVER ASKED LIKE
I HAD JUST INVADED YOUR SOUL
LIKE SOME DERANGED INTRUDER
WELL I NEVER ASKED TO BE PART
OF YOU
NOW I KNOW HOW LIT
TLE I WAS WANTED
I WOULD HAPPILY HA
VE JUST DIED AT BIRT
I TRIED NOT TO BREATHE
I WAS YELLOW AND SMALL
BEING BORN INTO A NEW HELL
MY OWN BIRTH STOPPED ME FR
OM EVER GIVING BIRTH MY OWN
INTERNAL FAERS AND KNOWING OF
THE CATCHERS OF THE ETERNAL SOUL
SAVED THE WINGS OF MANY ANGEL. I N
OW KNOW I AM FREE. FREE TO LEAVE
THIS WORLD WITH NO SENTIMENTAL TRA
IL. NO BLOOD TO STOP MY SOUL
FROM RETURNING BACK
TO WERE IT REALLY
BELONGS. A WORLD
THA IS MADE UP
OF A MILLION SUNS
I iLL BECOME JUS
A INY PART OF
THAT LIGHT

Publication excerpt from

Tracey Emin, Do Not Abandon Me, 2010.

Collaborating artist Tracey Emin
Medium Digital print
Dimensions sheet: 30 x 24" (76.2 x 61 cm)
Publisher Carolina Nitsch Editions, New York
Printer Dyenamix, New York
Edition 18
Impression H.C. 1/1
Credit Gift of the artists
Object number 18.2012.8
Department Drawings and Prints

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

American, born France. 1911–2010 3040 works online

Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was raised by parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. A gifted student, she also helped out in the workshop by drawing missing elements in the scenes depicted on the tapestries.

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