Last on the bucket list and to close out our Freudian experiment or project is ‘The Hotel Chelsea’ in New York City, where coincidentally our whole life journey started, let alone all the rest. We will be there on Wednesday. And this location is notable and significant for perhaps two basic things.
One, it became a halfway house of sorts for some of the West’s most famous artists and celebrities. Just go and look up some of the names who have stayed there and who have made pilgrimage there. It is therefore the greatest bastion of culture and history not just for the United States alone, but perhaps for the contemporary and modern West as a whole. It is therefore a distinct honor and privilege that I not only get to stay there for a couple of days, but to also stay in one of their ‘grand loft’ suites as well. The better one, the highest grade suite, wasn’t available, or else I might’ve taken the better one and the higher grade.
And two, it is the setting or site for an experimental underground film project conducted by Andy Warhol called “Chelsea Girls” which explores the lives of some of its residents. Warhol was perhaps the most consequential and important artist in the latter half of 20th century America. The largest museum dedicated to just one person in America is dedicated to Warhol. In turn, the essence or the theme not just of this particular experimental underground project by Warhol but of Warhol’s works as a whole were eroticism and sexuality. A great deal of Warhol’s work was banned even in Britain for being “indecent.” Warhol is credited for having set off “The Golden Age of Porn” in America. So there you have it. We now know where all our clues and hints have taken us. We have our conclusion and result.
Adam A. Azim 