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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.
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I'm fortunate in one respect that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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I don't have a dream project. I don't really think in those terms, to tell you the truth.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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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The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.
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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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