I'm pleased that there's a dialog about my work
but there's some misrepresentation, some people
may think that my work is just about money.
Certain aspects of my work are about money because
my work also talks about desire
but ahhh... the work's not about money, it's not
about just making something to sell.
I've learned earlier on, when i always worked
with ready made objects; that i'd do everything
to care and protect that ready made and
to preserve it's integrity and every perfection
and imperfection
and one day when i made sculpture ahh...
everything was a fiasco, and ahh... i couldn't save
the sculpture unless i really did something radical to it.
And i've realized to that moment that i really didn't care
about objects - i cared about people, and
that's where the imperfections were, that's where the perfections were
that i really cared about.
and so i feel a moral responsability everytime
i make something, to give something a hundred
per cent because that's what i care about; i care about the view.
You know, specially today it's not unusual for
artist that large, studios...
if you're interested in making more than one painting
a year or if you're interested in making more than
one sculpture, you have to be able to have support.
I like to work with people because i don't wanna be in
a room by myself. I mean, i love the sense of family
that i have with my studio.
It's part of business aspect of work and making
things you don't have to look at the bottom line on
each issue. If you want to create something, even
though it's impractical and usually they're really.
The best things are impractical. Great art usually
is very impractical, you know you can just go about
and you can make it. You really don't have any
choice, cause if you're making your work:
you have to do it.