My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.
I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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