“artists don't own the meaning of their works” -Roberta Smith
“you don’t have to understand the narrative, it’s the voice that is important” -Jerome Silbergeld
“how to be happy and sad and live and die” very much reflects my background from Seattle. It’s a bi-polar, schizophrenic, depressive, addictive, murderous, suicidal place. Hence Kurt Cobain, grunge, serial killers, and Twin peaks. To survive, you have to embrace the unrelenting darkness of living in a cathedral of trees and ferns and 9 months a year of rain and clouds. You never use an umbrella, always drink coffee, always wear a tutu and humbly do a pirouette.