ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS AND ART

"Art saves us from drowning in the undertow of systemic depression. It keeps us moving. Once we plug into the things we love—e.g., a song, a video—it becomes a shelter, or the raw energy and vision required to hold our ground on the battlefield of existence. Furthermore, what art truly does (how it viscerally alters the body) can never be trapped or defined by words—not even these. Any definition of art is merely a prosthetic, an additional gear attached to its core, uncontrollable functions."

"I believe that artistic creation is not a representation of life. Rather, it’s a forging of life itself, the play of difference and desire, a becoming-other, ontological self-making—the body of the new, forged through arbitrary creation. Arbitrarily and playfully, we seize anything at hand that might serve as material for creation, using even the very tools of a blind pyramidal society we never asked for, but repurposing them from within. Because none of us lives outside the system; we are all part of this dystopia. Playing the role of the victim is never an option."