This is the source for my new “Birth of the Universe” series, in which I use the active cunt to explore issues of women’s rage with both severity and humor. Currently, I’m inspired by the advances in science, astronomy, in the expanding knowledge of the universe and how it relates to ever-changing dynamics between women and men. I’ve always been attuned to what’s happening in the world and especially interested in exploring human behavior. Looking back over the span of my career, there have been a number of factors that have led me to where I am today. I began to use text like “this may not be heaven but Peter hangs out here” in my drawings and paired it with crude images. I realized that graffiti has psychological depth because when someone’s alone and releasing on the toilet, they’re also releasing from the subconscious. The graffiti I found was very raw and poignant. At the time, I was a graduate student at Yale School of Art, when Yale had an all-male undergraduate program and the Vietnam War and draft were happening. For instance, I became fascinated with scatological graffiti after reading an article in The New York Times in 1963 about Edward Albee taking the title Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf from bathroom graffiti. I loved to draw, paint and explore my imagination, and many things influenced me. Even before I understood what that meant. Judith Bernstein: I wanted to be an artist from as far back as I could remember. Emi Fontana: When did you know that you wanted to be an artist? What or who inspired you then? Who or what inspires you now?
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