I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.