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An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything would blur together.

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My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, ‘The only artists I’ve ever heard of are dead.’ It just wasn’t in her experience… I don’t think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn’t anyone in my family who had done that.

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April 29, 2024

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, ‘The only artists I’ve ever heard of are dead.’ It just wasn’t in her experience… I don’t think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn’t anyone in my family who had done that.

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