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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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I really kind of liked the fluidity and not really being tied down. I saw the kind of people that were tenured and what happened to them there and I thought it was kind of death, really.
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
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The drawings that I show - the drawings that I present to people are finished works in themselves. They're meant to be thought of that way and not necessarily lead to larger pieces or anything like that. And that's the way I work now.
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