Birth: 1972
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of depth. I'm sure this is true ….
To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand so much in the pro….
With nothing to risk, love can't exist..
As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from ….
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is invit….
I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on t….
Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses..
The tragedy is that, as modern viewers, we've completely lost touch with what it physically takes to wage a war..
Even if the effort is bound to fail you still commit completely. It is the commitment that counts for something..
To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is….