I Think That Art Is Supposed To

Some People Study A Text Very Deeply. The People Are My Text. I Study Their Words And What Their Words Sound Like, Over And Over Again. When I Was A Kid, My Grandfather Said That "if You Say A Word Often Enough, It Becomes You." Thinking Of That Later In Life Gave Me This Idea That I Could Try To Become America By Learning The Words Of People From Many Aspects Of The Country. It Doesn't Matter How Educated They Are. By Living In The World And Living Their Experiences, They Bring Extraordinary Truths. I Try To Do Those Truths Justice.

My Job In My Work Is Not To Acquire Power; It's To Question Power.

What My Work Is, Is My Approach To It. It's The Practice. And My Work Is About The Effort That I Make To Get There. And I Think If There's Anything Artistic, It's In That Middle Space.

Many People Are Afraid To Talk About Race Because It's So Emotionally Loaded. We Don't Have The Vocabulary To Talk About It. Every Day, Our Vocabulary Seems More And More Inadequate.

In My Profession, I'm Around A Lot Of People Whose Bodies Are Their Instruments In One Way Or Another.