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I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.

Bill Henson

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.
BILL HENSON

Happened Moving World
You have the literalness of a glass on a table – and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can’t get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject – of getting the whole world into the picture.
BILL HENSON

Evidential Getting Literariness World
I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it’s a different place.
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Beautiful Dawn Landscape Light
You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
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Body Life Whole World
I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.
BILL HENSON

Approach Beautiful Needed Understood
When you shoot on film, you don’t know whether you’ve got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it’s a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.
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Environment Film Landscape
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.
BILL HENSON

Art Experience Painting Want
There’s something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It’s just breathtaking.
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Architecture Breathtaking Rooms
As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I’m convinced it’s not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It’s a bit like young girls and horses.
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Boys Girl Horse
It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.
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Dreamscape Interested Suburbs
It’s a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them out on a laptop that is plugged into your Hasselblad and go “oh no, do it again, do it again”.
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Decision Different Want
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.
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Black Little Tiny White
On practical level I can’t pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don’t wander around. It’s almost impossible for me to pick up a camera… it’s really hard.
BILL HENSON

Cameras Level Thinking
Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.
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Interesting Mean Physically Thinking
I could be standing in the supermarket, and there is a person standing down the aisle, who is reading the back of a cornflakes box but everything about them is going “It’s me! I’m the one you want! I am the necessary subject. This is it!”
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Reading Standing Down Want
When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another – as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we’re all on one page.
BILL HENSON

Concerts Pages Yeah

I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.

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I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.

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