The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And… — Laurel Nakadate Amazing things Copy Share Image
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want… — Laurel Nakadate Awkwardness Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism… — Laurel Nakadate Beautiful Copy Share Image
I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some… — Laurel Nakadate About yourself Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the… — Laurel Nakadate Friction Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved… — Laurel Nakadate Brother Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could… — Laurel Nakadate Crazy Copy Share Image
I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not… — Laurel Nakadate Being lonely Copy Share Image
Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there. — Laurel Nakadate Death Copy Share Image
The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not… — Laurel Nakadate Attention Copy Share Image
I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with. — Laurel Nakadate Connections Copy Share Image
It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in… — Laurel Nakadate Body Copy Share Image
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way… — Laurel Nakadate Blow Copy Share Image
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that… — Laurel Nakadate Claims Copy Share Image
Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that. — Laurel Nakadate Beautiful Copy Share Image
I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from… — Laurel Nakadate Buying Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and… — Laurel Nakadate Ability Copy Share Image
Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the… — Laurel Nakadate Knows Copy Share Image
I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down. — Laurel Nakadate Cases Copy Share Image
I never want to make videos with people who don't want to make them with me. I don't want to force people… — Laurel Nakadate Force Copy Share Image
Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit… — Laurel Nakadate Character Copy Share Image
In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who… — Laurel Nakadate Hunted Copy Share Image
Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think… — Laurel Nakadate Body Copy Share Image
As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it… — Laurel Nakadate Ability Copy Share Image
After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and… — Laurel Nakadate Body Copy Share Image
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