I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.
I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
