, which was released on April 1, and will be arriving in my mailbox soon. I had the chance to call Molly and discuss her latest book, in what's been an exciting moment in her career.There isn’t really a concrete start and finish to my process—that tends to be a very editorialized way of thinking about art-making. For this body of work, it doesn't really apply. Basically, this all started when I madewith my friend Damien [Maloney], a book that was published in 2016.
Totally, and I think a big part about creating a more equal world for all of us, but especially women, is creating better men. We have to talk about how masculinity robs men of who they actually are or can be, though, before we can raise better guys in the future and have a better world—which is what your project is helping to do, I think.When you tell someone, like a guy, what they can and can't do, that’s so isolating and creates a sort of violence.
Oh, my god, yeah. It’s a capitalism thing: “You’ve been working. Do you wanna have work in the world? You should put out a book.” Some people are like FKA Twigs, or Lady Gaga; I’d argue most of the artists we look up to in the canon, though, are people who have ideas that drive them in the world. For example, David Hockney, he’s interested in a certain kind of landscape his entire life.