RJ

Quotes by Rashid Johnson

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.
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Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual.
You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.
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You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.
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 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.
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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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.
'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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'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.
For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
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For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.
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 in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
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 way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.
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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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.
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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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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