Laurel Nakadate Quotes - Page 2

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• I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous.

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  Lonely, Art, Simple

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

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  Crazy, Men, Strange Places

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in a short space. I like Lorrie Moore. Amy Hempel. Tim O'Brien. Raymond Carver. All the heartbreakers.

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  Song, Reading, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's such an energy created when the world is turned upside down, and when things are good again it's nice to take note. Then it goes away. Change. Change means friction. Friction happens where things aren't quite right, when everything is separating, when nothing is the same. Later you piece it back together.

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  Nice, Mean, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they like it or not. Fingerprints solve crimes. They're profound. They're your best and worst friend and you were born with them and you can't get away from them without a lot of pain and sandpaper.

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  Pain, Profound, Crime

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

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  Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

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  Thinking, Lenses, Gone

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it.

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  Thinking, Steel, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you can see a thing you don't have anymore it's very heartbreaking. To hold onto things longer than we actually can hold onto them is a desire. Writers and artists are trying to record these things they can no longer have. We're a heartbroken lot. Taking pictures is a brave act in which you try to explain and remember a thing you can't have anymore.

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  Heartbroken, Artist, Brave

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment. I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have created this place, this island in the ocean, and I'm happy there.

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  Ocean, Islands, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories.

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  Baby, Thinking, Eight

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.

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  Beautiful, Fall, Winning

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger hadn't been a shut-in would we love him so much? Any act that we do in private is amazing and profound because it is private. You don't have to worry about being socially awkward in the privacy of your own home... well, unless I show up.

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  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After you die, your body is just there. Isn't it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody's going to have to deal with it. I've always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There's nothing left.

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  Sea, People, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

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  Art, Thinking, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Wish

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I feel like the men who end up in my videos, their biggest crime is being lonely. They're not violent, they're not scary people, they're just men who keep to themselves and have a hard time being social.

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  Lonely, Hard Times, Men

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

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  Fun, Loneliness, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn't really have much in their life, so maybe I'm looking for someone who's lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

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  Sex, Long, Focus

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I find some comfort in running through the worst-case scenario in my mind and seeing how it's all going to go down.

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  Running, Worst Case Scenario, Mind

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

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  Laughing

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

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  Photography, Seems

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.

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  People, Waiting, Want

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

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  Art, Optimistic, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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