“I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.”
I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
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“I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.”
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“Change is not indecision.”
“Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.”
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