- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons.
- Misunderstanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020