We Never Did Things As We Were

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.

Being A Good Hans Haacke Student, Part Of His Influence On Me Is That There's No Difference Between A Gallery Show And A Film - Or Even An Ad And A T-shirt-in Terms Of Cultural Legitimacy. They're Just Different Contexts In Which To Have Some Sort Of Communication.

We Never Did Things As We Were Supposed To Do. That Was Part Of Our Ethic. We Did What Felt Right To Us, Not What Someone Told Us We Should Do.

I'm Not A Craftsman Of Graphics Or Art Or Film. I'm More Of An Idea Generator And Manufacturer.

As A Son Of A Man Who Pretended To Be One Thing For 33 Years Of My Life And Then Was Another Thing, The Questions Of 'what Is Real' And 'what Is Not Real' Are Very Blurrily Vivid To Me.