01/04/2024
new artist statement for a new year; i lost my favorite job and my favorite apartment, productivity and notoriety mean little, there’s homes built near toxic waste dumps and one of them was once mine, they paid me fifteen dollars per hour to return clothes they bought to zara, the clothes went into the landfill, it’s a new year and i do not want to keep making the same mistakes, i don’t want to give a brooklyn landlord another cent, i want to make art about pollution, i’m at a campsite under a petroleum plant, free palestine, free congo, free sudan, free north brooklyn, is it a denial of business as usual to live in a van with your lover, is it resistance to step away from industry, they’re pouring concrete somewhere as we speak