As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up. |
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. |
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot. |
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. |
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. |
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. |
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. |
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. |
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. |
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. |
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. |
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. |
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed. |
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. |
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. |
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. |
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. |
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. |
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. |
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. |