Does the sea dream ? I'm sure - we are here, we attend, we are bells on the shore as the tolling suspends.

Privilege

A selection of artwork and photos by Patti Smith

Lycaenid Butterfly: drawing by Patti Smith 
for the 1997 promo edition of the album Peace and Noise

self-portrait
Golden Temple, Kyoto (as published in M Train)

Remains of boardwalk (as published in M Train)
Desert tracks, Namibia (as published in M Train)
Bedroom dresser - with Fonteyn’s ballet slippers
(as published in M Train)
2016
Eighteen Stations featured photographs included in the book M Train, along with works from Patti Smith speaking  to art and literature’s potential to offer hope and consolation.
(March 3 – April 16, 2016 at Robert Miller Gallery, New York City)
photo of Café 'Ino, NYC
photo of Schiller's table, Jena
Eighteen Stations (installation view)
photo of Patti Smith at William Burrough's graveside,
by Lenny Kaye
photos of Saint Thomas à Becket Church and Sylvia Plath's grave

Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul, Coyoacán
Frida Kahlo’s bed
Frida Kahlo’s medicine bottles
Roberto Bolaño’s chair, Blanes, Spain




Kita-Kamakura Station, winter (Japan)


2014
Rockaway! a free public arts festival celebrating  the reopening of Fort Tilden and the ongoing recovery of the Rockaway Peninsula after Hurricane Sandy, included works by several artists, including the following by Rockaway resident, Patti Smith: a large-scale installation, photography and the outdoor installation called The Resilience of the Dreamer.
(June 29 – September 1, 2014 at Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach, New York)
Online brochure description: “Having witnessed personal belongings of Rockaway residents being destroyed during Sandy, Patti Smith will install a gilded four-post bed with pure white linens in a long-abandoned building that lacks windows and parts of its roof. The bed will wear down physically, yet remain in place, a symbol of courage and resilience.
An exhibition of photographs taken by Patti Smith over the last several years focuses on objects that were dear to their owners: Robert Mapplethorpe’s slippers, Robert Graves's hat, Virginia Woolf’s bed, Frida Kahlo’s corset, and William Burroughs's bandana… The adjoining gallery is dedicated to Walt Whitman and includes books of his poetry that visitors are invited to read. Patti Smith has also placed five granite stones engraved with verses from Whitman’s poetry along the trails of Fort Tilden to mark the far ends of this scenic urban park on the ocean”

Front cover of the book Camera Solo
From the exhibition of photographs:
http://www.ago.net/patti-smith-camera-solo#

2013
Guardian angel, Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
(statue detail, Berlin)

"the city's oldest water tower" Berlin
2012
Frida Kahlo’s corset
Frida Kahlo’s crutches, Casa Azul, Coyoacán
Frida Kahlo’s medicine bottles
2011
9.11 BABELOGUE
(Sep 7 – Dec 7, 2011 at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York)
exhibition catalogue 
Text by Patti Smith and Michelle Yun
Illustrations by Patti Smith


GROUND ZERO AND GOLD POURED FORTH – 2002 (silkscreen, colored pencil, graphite, and acrylic paint on nineteenth-century handmade paper, 39 x 57 cm approx)



SOUTH TOWER SKYLINE – 2002 (silkscreen on canvas, 218 x 138 cm approx.
SOUTH TOWER GOLD (MONSTER) silkscreen


THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU 504
SOUTH TOWER THE GEMS OF TRAGEDY


PLANE FOLDED FLIGHT 11, 175 -  2002
(pencil on handmade paper, folded as schematic) 

2009
Rimbaud’s Litter – wood, Italian fishing net and unique poetry
St Margarita, Charles Bridge, Prague
Dylan Thomas's grave, Laugharne, Wales
2008
 Cross by the Sea, Asbury Park, New Jersey


"I like to feel the skin of canvas: I know it’s not right to touch paintings when you go to museums; first time I got yelled at, I was a teenager, touching a Modigliani - I just had to feel the texture, the way the paint…
'Dream of Life' (2008 DVD)

2007
Walt Whitman’s Tomb, Camden, New Jersey
 2004
My Father's Cup
 2003
(selfie NYC)
 2002
Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith by David Greenberg and John W. Smith
(Sep 28, 2002 – Jan 5, 2003 at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh)
exhibition catalogue published by The Andy Warhol Museum 
 1998
Orchid - graphite and coloured pencil on paper (21 x 28 cm approx)
 1995
Tibetan Bowl
BIRD HEAD
The Arabs say: Bird has 52 properties 
26 saintly 26 satanic. 
They cover + wing like angels 
Then go defile the door of the mosque 
with their FLYING BIRD SHIT
(March 73)
1973
The first issues of Todd Rundgren's 1973 LP A Wizard, A True Star included Patti Smith’s ‘Band-Aid poem.’ The words were written on what looked like a pink band-aid, the artwork was approximately 3 inches by 12 inches. In green, Patti had written a synopsis of Todd’s album. In red ink, was a drawing of a woman behind a rock and some added words.
star fever
They can not harm me
They can not harm me
They can only
burn out my eyes
beat my limbs
black and blue
legs cant run
hands cant play
face cant sing
cant sing cant say
They can not harm me
They can only
turn in my eyes
rip out my teeth
spit pure ivory
carve my face like a clock
alarm me clock clock me
bleed me scape goat me
chain me to a rock me
rock me rock me
clever as a fox me
brand a star on/my left shoulder
a star on my left
clever as a fox
my spirit lights
behind the boulder
holding to my name forever
Knowing I'll go on forever
Spirit laughing free as water
in a ring of fire
with its hair aflame 
revenge is golden. silence is shit. 
His wing
His wing
his lightning 
boulder 
star


His wing 
aflame


When Todd’s album was released, Patti wrote a review in Creem magazine. She entitled her piece “Todd's electric exploitation: rock and roll for the skull.”
In 1979, Todd produced the Patti Smith Group’s album Wave.

1978 
Song and lyrics 'Privilege (Set Me Free)'
lyrics to the improvised ‘Babelogue’ + ‘Rock’N’Roll Nigger’ (with photos)