Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.
Doug AitkenI'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.
Doug AitkenWhen you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.
Doug AitkenI really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by composition.
Doug AitkenYou see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.
Doug AitkenWhat The Source becomes, in a physical sense, is almost like this particle accelerator. There's all these different, discrete voices and ideas. If you just saw two of them together perhaps it might seem completely diverse and like, "Why do you have these two people together?" But as it grows and as it speeds up, it kind of creates a larger dialogue.
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