Portrait of Joe Wilfer, 1979 was drawn at the University of Wisconsin, when Alice Neel visited there. The sitter, Joseph Wilfer, was a well-known area printer and paper maker who later became Senior Printer for Pace Prints in New York.
Through attempts at self-portraiture, I inadvertently summoned a visitant. Her name is Frances. She is not a persona, nor is she my alter-ego. Frances is a ghost; visiting often, she seeks form through possession. I allow her to inhabit me, to…