"She was my neighbour in Chelsea. I’d see her walking with her cart to the hardware store, and I knew she was an artist. One day I invited her over for lunch and she brought a nice bottle of wine. I also invited Joyce Kozloff, and we got to know each other as women in the neighbourhood who were in the arts. I suggested Louise work on a stone, so I hauled the stone over to her studio, and it ended up in the basement. She scratched the hell out of it because she's a sculptor, and it was kind of unprintable. Then I became associated with a printer in the neighbourhood, and that's how The Song of the Blacks and the Blues (1996) came about. She had this huge sketch, and she wanted to do a big woodcut." -Judith Solodkin, on meeting Louise Bourgeois for the first time