If there’s ever a fire in my apartment, the artwork is what I would grab. It’s part of the atmosphere of my life and has been since childhood, and I’ve always loved it. LILLY DANCYGER: I’ve lived surrounded by my father’s artwork for my entire life. I talked with Lilly over the phone about archives, memory, chosen family, and how relationships continue to evolve after death. Integrating interviews with Schactman’s friends, her own lived experiences, and deep engagement with her father’s work, Dancyger creates an expansive and profoundly moving story that ultimately embodies a kind of infinite imperfect love – which, really, is the only kind. In so doing, she vividly renders a journey of coming to terms with grief, addiction, inherited trauma and memory, coming of age, New York, and the meaning of family. In her debut memoir, Negative Space, Dancyger uses her art – writing – to communicate with his, images of which appear in the book’s pages. Schactman passed away when Dancyger was eleven. His work included a vast array of visual art and sculpture, often using found and natural objects. Her father, Joe Schactman, was a vital part of the East Village alternative art scene in the 1980s. As a child, Lilly Dancyger lived in an art-saturated world.
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