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 escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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 …
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…
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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