The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade ‘I didn’t invent the world

‘I didn’t invent the world

and what today might be called social practice

At one point he does ‘bottles’ with ‘pedestals’

And as it flows it effects changes

those able to make an enclosure or a block into music

The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980 Nachtschade ‘I didn’t invent the worldRosemary & Bernadette Mayer This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943 2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York's artistic avant garde, and one which includes the development of major bodies of work by the two women. Rosemary Mayer was creating sculptures, watercolors, books and "temporary monuments" from weather balloons and snow,