I 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 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 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 StrachanThere's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.
Tavares Strachan