Eva Hesse on why she always felt different, alone and apart from others.
Premieres Friday, August 31 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)
TRANSCRIPT
I'm not a writer nor may you say should be that pretentious to write down my thoughts.
An autobiographical sketch of a nobody.
This is a story of one whom from the outside reveals a rather pretty picture.
Pretty face, pretty body, pretty dress.
However, the person does not feel pretty inside.
I have felt for the majority of my life different, alone and apart from others To complicate the matter some, for the last years I've shown and developed talents as a painter... a good one at that.
Was it in my feeling estranged and different that I could claim the title of painter?
What I've accepted as the answer is that the true artist is paradoxically also the true personal misfit.