In addition to updating the Wooster website, each year Sara and I write about 10 - 15 articles for various art and culture magazines around the world. 

One of our favorite - and we think best - interviews we ever did was with the artist Swoon. It ran in the fourth issue of Roger Gastman and Shepard Fairey’s Swindle Magazine.  We felt that Swoon’s answers were so thoughtful and intelligent that during the editing process we removed our questions altogether and edited her thoughts into on continuous monologue.

Here’s an excerpt:

On Becoming SWOON

My boyfriend at the time was very influential in my work. He was born and raised in Manhattan and we were both in love with the city. He woke up one morning and said to me, “I had this dream last night that you were a tagger and you wrote the name SWOON. We were running from the police and all I could think about was how beautiful your name was.”

Later, when I started doing a lot of work on the street, I remembered the name SWOON from his story. I had also read about a time when a woman would wear corsets so tight that she would pass out. They romanticized it and called it a swoon. It was as if the moment overtook her. But in reality she passed out because she was wearing restrictive fashion. And I thought that it was good that women have evolved to a place where we’re not doing this to ourselves anymore. I look at the word SWOON as a body of work, not as my name. SWOON is not me. I’m not Swoon. SWOON is like a way of thinking. It’s a body of work. It’s a series of interrelating thoughts.”

Recently Swindle put their archives online, which means that you can read the entire interview by clicking here. 

We hope you like it as much as we do.