Neat Man”

In my notebook from 1990 I write... idea: make a “man” work, which does not show wether I am for or against men. Simply a ‘man’ decoration.

Nice that it is so neutral. 

A good neutral male work. 

I am a feminist, but I dislike to be against anybody. Men should make their manly work, women should be able to do the same.

Drawing archive 1990 

Drawing archive 21, folder2, artcritic: 

“Elections for artcollectors, artcritics, and curators, by artist, by philosophers, 1954 even, the year I was born. Dumb idea I guess, nevertheless I like these peculiar ones. So weird. Trying out some things in my thinking. Do things really have to go how we think they go. Hustling the hierarchical. Filling up the corner of the paper with a senseless group of bubbled doodly lines arrowing at an even sillier humpty dumpty style of lettering." 

Lily van der Stokker (b. 1954, Den Bosch, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and New York City. She earned a degree in drawing and textiles from R.K. Scholengemeenschap St. Dionysus, Tilburg, and a second degree in monumental design and painting from the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost, Breda.