Consider: Make Your Unknown Known

On vagueness as vitality in Georgia O'Keeffe's archival correspondence

At one point Georgia O’Keeffe became unlikely pen pals with the writer Sherwood Anderson. Her letters aren’t the easiest to read. They’re full of starts and stops and half-formed sentences that go nowhere — alas the permanence of pen! — but for whatever reason her letters to Anderson have stuck with me. 

O’Keeffe and Juan Hamilton by Andy Warhol for Interview Magazine

O’Keeffe was notoriously allergic to divulging details of her inner life or process (I mean, the woman did move to the middle of nowhere to get away from everyone; she was the queen of falling “ill” to avoid confrontation and a bit of Lite Recon™ will reveal the many failed attempts to find and interview her. I do recommend this bizarre combo of Andy Warhol & Georgia in conversation, where he suggests she get contact lenses and she refuses dessert unless it is raspberries from the garden.)