What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

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

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

... 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.