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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

- Barbara Kruger
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.