"The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness."

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I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

— Nancy Spero