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I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

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Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

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I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

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Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.

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I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

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I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

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I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

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I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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