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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Barbara Kruger

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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Hobbies Magic Photography
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Language Pieces Stealing
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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Political Sound Term
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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Clean Small World World
I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Labels Thinking Way
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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Artist Rehabilitation Tactics
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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Artist Gossip Scary
I’ve always been very tied to language.
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Always Language Tied
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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Artist Opportunity Space
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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Delusion Drag Surround Yourself
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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Looks Mean Vocabulary
I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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Artist Ideas Trying
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
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
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’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

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

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