Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people,… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that. — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share
