“I learned when I was a child that it was better to be lichen. It was better to be hardy and durable and scrappy, and a little rough. It was better to look inedible, lest...

“There’s something about trust, about being able to trust that something or someone will just be there, that we have lost in this whirlwind of creation and destruction and absorption of companies. It’s like we’re...

“If the praise is gonna feel genuine, then the people praising us have to know us well enough to praise us for something that is genuinely ours.” On praise- our need for it (even when...

“What does it mean to be made visible to people who don’t understand the context from which we come? What of our history is important enough to tell and retell? Sometimes telling and retelling those...

“We, as intensives, are all the way in. And when we are all the way in, it means that when our hearts break, they break all the way. And there is nothing but a bloody...

“I drew chalk outlines like some kind of strange murder scene. But nothing was being killed except my idea of myself as needing to be perfect.” On making one’s own trousers, and on showing our...

“Let’s talk about what happens when we all make art. And I don’t mean everybody has to be trained. I don’t mean everybody has to be making beautiful art. I do mean to interrogate what...

“There’s so much richness and cross pollination that happens when we go into those rabbit holes. When we allow ourselves the luxury of just opening the door and tumbling down. As intensives we are specialists...

“When I get stuck, I forget why I do any of the things that I do. I forget the sparkle in someone’s eye when they find out for the first time that they’re an intensive,...

“Maybe I will eat a single, ripe, peach. Anything. Anything to completion…. We forget that the restoration is possible. And then something happens and we remember. But we don’t have to wait for it to...