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You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

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I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

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That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

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I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

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I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

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Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

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When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

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People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.

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Biography

Nationality: Ethiopian

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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