I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.
Morgan ParkerArt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process"?
Morgan ParkerI try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties.
Morgan ParkerIn grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncรฉ and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncรฉ meant something very different then than she does now.
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