I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me. And exactly as in Art one is only concerned with what a particular thing is at a particular moment to oneself, so it is also in the ethical evolution of one’s character. But, somehow, I have got to make both of these things just and right to me. It tells me that the laws under which I am convicted are wrong and unjust laws, and the system under which I have suffered a wrong and unjust system. Among them was Smith, who read from the original text and ended with a stunning vocal performance of her fittingly themed song “Wing.” In 2016, the notorious prison opened its doors to the public for the first time and Artangel invited artists and writers to respond to Wilde’s stirring letter. The letter was originally published in 1905, five years after Wilde’s untimely death from cerebral meningitis likely triggered by an old prison injury, and was later reissued in De Profundis and Other Prison Writings ( public library | free ebook). Titled De Profundis, it chronicled Wilde’s effort to transmute his suffering into a spiritual journey toward self-transcendence. When Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854–November 30, 1900) was incarcerated for being homosexual, he set out to be reborn within the walls of the infamous Reading Prison and recorded that quest for rebirth on the hundred pages of a stunning 50,000-word letter to Sir Alfred “Bosie” Douglas - the love of Wilde’s life and the subject of his exquisite love letters. “Everything pours forth,” she observed in reflecting on her favorite books. “Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book,” Patti Smith wrote as she contemplated time and transformation.
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