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onthe RobeRt Wilson is considered one of the world's leading avant-garde stage directors, whose iconic works include Einstein on the Beach, The King of Spain and The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. In 1992, he founded The Watermill Center to provide emerging artists with a unique environment for creation and exploration. FAIRWEATHER: Tell us about Peter Pan. RobERT WIlson: My production of Peter Pan opened recently at the Berliner Ensemble, with music by CocoRosie. In my version, Peter Pan is a very dark and light tale. It is a love story. Wendy is in love with Peter Pan; Tinkerbell is in love with Peter Pan; Captain Hook is in love with Peter Pan. 20 | SUMMER 2013 | FAIRWEATHER above: Bob Wilson. Right: The Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY. beach F: What future projects are you working on or dreaming about doing? RW: I am planning to do Bonnie and Clyde with Tom Waits. F: What do you want your legacy to be? RW: My legacy will be The Watermill Center, a place for young artists to develop new work. F: Did your childhood infuence who you have become? RW: I was born in Waco Texas, and the landscape of Waco Texas is in all my work. F: Since you travel around the world, what's your favorite place? Where would you encourage people to visit? RW: Each year I take a couple of weeks of and go to the Far East. For the past 20 years, I have been at Bali. I feel at home there. F: What's your favorite spot in the Hamptons? RW: My favorite spot in the Hamptons is the terrace of of my apartment at The Watermill Center. F: What's your biggest vice and grandest virtue? RW: My biggest vice is red wine. I love to be with young artists. F: Tell us about your chair collection. What fascinates you about chairs? RW: When I was eight years old, I visited my uncle in alamogordo, New Mexico. He was a recluse who lived in the white sand desert in an adobe house. He lived like a monk. He had only one chair in the house. It was a very simple, thin, leather back side chair. I said to him: "Uncle Sherrod, this is a very beautiful chair!" The following Christmas, he sent it to me as a Christmas present. When I was 17, his son John wrote me a letter and said that his father had given me a chair, and it was his and he wanted it back. I sent it to him, and from that day on I have been collecting chairs. F: How did you fnd the Watermill Center? RW: Through Richard Rutkowski, who grew up next to the Watermill Center and who used to play on the grounds of the old abandoned Western Union building as a child. When I saw FROM LEFT: HSU PING; COURTESy OF THE WaTERMILL CENTER wilson