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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Barbara Kruger

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
BARBARA KRUGER

Bucks Moving Thinking
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
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Belief Differences Doubt
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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Artist Different Mean
Look, we’re all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I’ve chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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Crazy Insanity Looks
I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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Artist Pictures Words
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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Laughter Side Want
I’ve always been very tied to language.
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Always Language Tied
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Different Ideas Space
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I’m trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Art Thinking Trying
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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Artist People Thinking
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Moments Recognition Trying
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.
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Degrees Pieces World
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Art Village Voice
I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Buying Life Lifestyle
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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Night Space Thinking

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

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