Birth: December 16, 1979
I think if art has one underlying value, it's that..
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the env….
The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are..
There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project..
I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past that stage, and ….
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all..
I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider..
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy….
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the earth, which….
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to ….
I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness..
I was approached by Neville Wakefield. I've known Neville for almost a decade, but we had never really worked together. We sort of threatened to work….
I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before y….
If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an arti….
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible..
Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material..