I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past that stage, and I get the appreciation for being in that moment, and soaking it in. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I was approached by Neville Wakefield. I've known Neville for almost a decade, but we had never really worked together. We sort of threatened… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think when you're younger and making things, it's something that you have to fight through, to finish things. I feel like I'm past… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
If you take a flower to Mars, for example, the hostility of Mars probably won't allow the flower to live without oxygen. The process… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I don't really feel pressure. I'm so distracted by what we're doing; I'm doing this four-acre project, it's just absorbing all my attention. Before… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back into the… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material. — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny,… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
![“When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA.” quote by Tavares Strachan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/tavares-strachan-31840_bahamas_when-you-re-in-bahamas-it-feels-like-a-b_2813014.jpg)
