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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.
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I wanted my style to be very recognizable.
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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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I just try things and whether people like it or if I find it successful or not, I just do it.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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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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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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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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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 was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, conceptual art, there is always a physical aspect to it. I never knew what the term meant.
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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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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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