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 environment.
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 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 think if art has one underlying value, it's that. - Tavares Strachan
I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.
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 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…
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
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.
There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project. - Tavares Strachan
There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.
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
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…
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 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. - 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.
The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are. - Tavares Strachan
The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.
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