Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

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.

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.

You make history when you do business.