He was attracted to people who silently bore some sort of inner pain as he did, and he loved people who were one-of-a-kind, people who had a unique vision of things.” He was attracted to intelligence more than anything and to pain. They could be boys, girls, thin, fat, pretty, ugly. He was attracted to people for all different reasons. It was a very rich multi-chromatic sexuality. It did not rely on visual stimulation, such as a pretty girl. “It was clear that his sexual interest was not monochromatic. Jean-Michel likes to spit into Suzanne’s mouth.” (29) He looks at girlie magazines and masturbates. He picks up boys or girls at Mudd Club and disappears for days. “Jean-Michel brushes Suzanne’s hair for hours. Once I found about Basquiat, I started to read things about how he was bisexual and etc but I thought it was a lie, however this book confronts that idea. The first aspect of Basquiat that is covered is his sexuality. Basquiat moved into Suzanne’s apartment bringing only a broken radio and a tin full of coloring crayons.
He’d come to the bar everyday and put coins on the counter to get a cup of Remy and eventually they started to date. She worked as a bartender in a bar and that’s how she met Basquiat. ‘I fell down the stairs.’ ‘My brother punched me.’ ‘I crashed into a tree on my bike.’ ‘The door slammed in my face.’ ‘I slipped on the ice.’ ‘I don’t remember.’ ‘My doll’s hand scratched me.’ ‘The rain fell hard.’ (16-17)Įventually, Suzanne was able to leave home and went to New York as fast as she could. A door feels like a shove, but it can’t be open. She explains how the abuse of her father allowed her to know her skeleton, as well as how to cover up the abuse to people in the public. In the very beginning we see that Suzanne’s father would beat up on her and her siblings for a pretty extensive part of her early life. Suzanne grew up in a dark way to Palestinian Refugee parents-an abusive father and a mother who was pretty kooky in her own right. The story is told from her perspective detailing different aspects of their relationship as well as parts of her upbringing. The book is about realistically the relationship between deceased artist and legend Jean-Michel Basquiat and his muse, and lover Suzanne. Yesterday I finished reading Widow Basquiat, by Jennifer Clement in a day, and despite it being 140 pages written in a simplistic, poetry format, it was one of the most informative, puzzling and interesting memoirs I’ve ever read.
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