- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do has an underlying political question.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just follow the things I'm interested in. That's always guided me. If I'm interested in something, that's where I go.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
- Blanket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in blanket statements on race.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020