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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.

Barbara Kruger

It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Class People Support
You make history when you do business.
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Business History Make
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
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 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
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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Artist Degrees 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 feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I’m not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don’t do it. I’m not crazy about categories.
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Art Crazy Mean
Memory is your image of perfection.
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Memories Perfection
It’s good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can’t be personalized.
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Good Hard Mind Practice Time Work
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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Pictures Want Who Word
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
It’s really hard for me to use the term ‘history’ in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I’d rather stick to the pluralness of ‘histories’ in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
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History Order Views
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
the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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Art Mean Reflection
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

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