“I want a dyke for president,” reads the rendering for a 20-by-30-foot public artwork in downtown Manhattan. She wrote “I want a president” when, as a press release for High Line Art points out, the poet Eileen Myles ran for president as an “openly female” independent candidate against George H.W. Leonard’s poem was set to be published by a queer magazine at the time, but, when the publication dissolved, the work began to circulate amongst the artist’s social group, its typewriter font passing from friend to friend to friend-of-a-friend. This month, Leonard’s words are larger than life, set to be plastered on a pillar tourists throttle by every day. Zoe Leonard’s “I want a president” will be on view from Oct. 11 to Nov. 17, 2016, on the High Line under the Standard hotel, overlooking West 13th and Little West 12th Streets.

Source: Huffington Post October 06, 2016 18:56 UTC