I hope what I do when I draw from other people's lives is pay tribute. To try to understand what it means in our society to be silenced. To try to understand how class and gender intersect with that. To try to understand how being named and classified within the context of psychiatry can intersect with all that, as well.
Kate ZambrenoI think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.
Kate ZambrenoFor years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.
Kate ZambrenoI think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis.
Kate Zambreno