Kim Gordon – the American musician, singer and songwriter turned visual artist – disavows being an icon. She even published a book called No Icon in 2020 to drive home the point. But she is an inspirational figure for many, us included, and has a place in our recent Wallpaper* USA 300, a celebration of creative America.
We look to our cultural heroes and make field notes for living, thinking that if we listen, watch, read what they do closely enough, we can absorb through some osmotic process a bit of what has us in their thrall.
