That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
Julie MehretuI always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
Julie MehretuYou're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.
Julie MehretuThe earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesโmapping, charting, and architectureโto try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But thereโs only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.
Julie Mehretu