RJ
Rashid Johnson
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Quotes by Rashid Johnson


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I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.

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I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

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'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

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For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

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The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

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The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

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The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.

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As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
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