21 Quotes by Jessica Stockholder

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    I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

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    I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

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    In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

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    I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

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    Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

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    My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there's a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.

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