I've Always Been Very Tied To Language.

I've Always Thought That It's Good To Watch The News To Find Out What Everybody Else Is Looking At And Believing, If Only Because That's How Consensus Is Constructed.

... The Thing That's Happening Today Vis-á-vis Computer Imaging, Vis-á-vis Alteration, Is That It No Longer Needs To Be Based On The Real At All. I Don't Want To Get Into Jargon - Let's Just Say That Photography To Me No Longer Pertains To The Rhetoric Of Realism; It Pertains More Perhaps To The Rhetoric Of The Unreal Rather Than The Real Or Of Course The Hyperreal.

Listen: Our Culture Is Saturated With Irony Whether We Know It Or Not.

Prominence Is Cool, But When The Delusion Kicks In It Can Be A Drag. Especially If You Choose To Surround Yourself With Friends And Not Acolytes.

Look, We're All Saddled With Things That Make Us Better Or Worse. This World Is A Crazy Place, And I've Chosen To Make My Work About That Insanity.