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 versus the environment. — 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
