Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.