When the ruined warehouses “became silhouetted at a certain point of the day,” Wojnarowicz told the curator Barry Blinderman, “I could dream myself—project myself—all around the world in my imagination by looking at those qualities of light, and by looking at those structures.”7 As he cruised there, Wojnarowicz was reminded “of sailors, of distant ports,” that, even as maritime trade declined and disappeared, cast a long erotic shadow on the waterfront.8
