Four Quotes by Tavares Strachan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.

— Tavares Strachan

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.

— Tavares Strachan

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

— Tavares Strachan