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- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drake went through my exhibition. I did meet him in Los Angeles, and he was in the spaces that I did do there, and has some images from that.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My art has no object, no image, no point of focus.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family that does not believe in art to this day. They think art is vanity.
- Electricity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid. They didn't do cars and electricity, that kind of stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
- Nov 07, 2020