I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like … - Hilton Als

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I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

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I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.

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I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names
subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

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Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

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I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

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I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.

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I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

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