Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I'm a child of the twentieth century. And I don't see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.