I've always been interested in the principle of the fractal, which is typified by self-similarity across scale, which both puts a lot of pressure on …

- Cole Swensen

At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often fe…

- Cole Swensen

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conv…

- Cole Swensen

Being in unfamiliar places has no effect on my writing, except that it often means I'm caught up in the logistics of travel, the places and people on…

- Cole Swensen

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.

- Cole Swensen

If you're deeply engaged in an event, you're part of it. But if you're outside of it, disinterested, you are the regard that registers history. And t…

- Cole Swensen