Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.