Tavares Strachan Quotes
I think there's an interesting line drawn towards extreme environments, and the way I define extreme is through a sense of otherness. Or foreignness.
The way that I Am is designed, it becomes a kind of archipelago, which the Bahamas are.
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.
Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material.
There's always a moment that tilts the scales of the project, and it's always different in every project.
I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.
I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.
I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.
