Trevor Paglen Quotes
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.