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.

- Tavares Strachan

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…

- Tavares Strachan

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

- Tavares Strachan

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.

- Tavares Strachan

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

- Tavares Strachan

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 …

- Tavares Strachan

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.

- Tavares Strachan

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…

- Tavares Strachan

The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.

- Tavares Strachan