BILL BECKLEY | DEIRDRE'S LIP

Friedman Benda, New York, 2015

According to the photographer, Deirdre’s Lip, conceived in 1977 '. . . is a culmination of my so-called Story or Narrative works of the late sixties. In 1969, I began writing texts and simultaneously imagined images to make works that were both image and text – neither one having precedent over the other. The images do not illustrate the text and the texts do not explain the images – or at least I hope they don’t. They float together in undetermined space and function like a kiss. The Lip is fiction, not a documentation of an act performed elsewhere. . . A moral of the story, but not the only one: if you want a kiss, it’s good to give some lip.’