We think better when our minds are entwined

on intellectual, creative partnerships / being loved and changed

Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe It is no question that we are the amalgamation of everyone we have ever loved. It is no question that every word we write is tinged by knowledge that has been derived by others, co-opted and made our own. This is art: a live wire plugged into the current of all our central experiences. “We gravitated toward each other, no matter how wide the breach” Patti Smith, acclaimed poet, artist, and songwriter, writes in her memoir Just Kids, about her unique, mutually devotional, friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe, renowned photographer. Both met as young,…

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