I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.

The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

I thought I'd be a chef by night and paint by day. Now I just have fabulous dinner parties.

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