In it we find, for the first time, Wojnarowicz’s writing and visual art, two mediums for which he is renowned, playing off each other in equal measure. Despite its meager print run of just 50 copies, the publication has garnered a legendary status, and for good reason. David Wojnarowicz’s fractured scrapbook of dream journals, political critique and collage-an ultra-rare document of 1980s New York subcultureĭavid Wojnarowicz’s In the Shadow of Forward Motion was originally published as a photocopied zine/artist’s book to accompany an exhibition of the same name at PPOW Gallery in 1989.
