I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before you know it we're onto the next project, and so on and so forth.
Tavares StrachanI think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.
Tavares StrachanI think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.
Tavares StrachanI think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.
Tavares StrachanThe idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.
Tavares StrachanIf you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process of being an artist, for someone who wasn't born in an arts-centric environment - I came from the Bahamas, where there's not a historic tradition of art-making, at least from the Western prospective - in a way is kind of an alien concept.
Tavares Strachan