“In my 10-year industry experience I have never worked with a black photographer and that speaks volumes…”
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psychotherapy & contemporary arts magazine
“In my 10-year industry experience I have never worked with a black photographer and that speaks volumes…”
Read More“Art truly saved my life; I owe everything to it. Allowing myself to be vulnerable at that time is what kept me alive, I channelled it even in that state. Vulnerability can shift into power.”
Read More“Working with a human brain was a transformative and emotional experience. The images revealed themselves gradually… and the prints, although taken from a dead cross-section, seemed to expose a consciousness at work.”
Read More“I think simulation is interesting… simulating materials found in the real world for my art. I suppose it serves as a touchstone to reality, something that lets you ground yourself before getting lost.”
Read More“I feel there isn’t really an excuse nowadays to not be aware of privilege and how it affects everything around us, so it feels like the least I can do is try to bring attention to these issues through my creative practice.”
Read More“I was so obsessed with the ‘honesty’ of the work that I would never tell even the littlest of lies in any circumstance (even out of kindness) because I feared that the dishonesty would seep into my work…”
Read More“It is actually in these moments where one expects infallible heroism I enjoy exploring mistakes or awkwardness.”
Read More“In the old Hollywood era, the archetype of beauty… was always and in any case linked to their gender identity, which could never be non-binary. That’s one of the reasons I associate my persona with this aesthetic, I find it empowering.”
Read More“Franz Kline once said to Philip Guston in a conversation “You know what creating really is? To have the capacity to be embarrassed”, which I think is absolutely true. You need that capacity to just keep painting with a reckless abandon…”
Read More“The natives believed that photography steals part of the soul. Photography steals but gives back in a new way, lightening parts of the soul, making them visible…”
Read MoreA poem inspired by Dan McPharlin’s illustration
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