“Maybe if all my memories were erased, I would be the kind of artist I am? One who spends every day looking at family photographs for evidence of life’s details and trying to close the gap of time.”
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“Maybe if all my memories were erased, I would be the kind of artist I am? One who spends every day looking at family photographs for evidence of life’s details and trying to close the gap of time.”
Read More“The very atmosphere that I try to create in my practice – things coming and going, feelings of temporality. That emotion you are feeling in the now that will inevitably pass…”
Read More“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“I was thinking about what it means to be lost but still know where you are; am I emotionally lost, does being lost imply distance? Is the tool I’m using the find my way actually making me more lost?”
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 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“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 More“My work is made with what I can only describe as love – the marks I engrave all need to be considered and crafted… I hope that the time they take and the thoughts and ideas that go into them somehow build their own depth and quiet power…”
Read More“Buildings are like anchors in time. The structures and their form are a constant manifestation that passes through the years rooted in place… We can perform archaeology on buildings in a way that we cannot do with memories.”
Read More“I realized my art opened some personal doors that connected me with my past emotions and that questioned me… And that meant a big healing process for me.”
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