The Creative Independent

I think about your work existing in so many different contexts: as public art, in the museum, at the biennial, and in the gallery. How do you approach making work that is meant to live in and respond to many different environments?

It’s changed a lot over the years. I certainly try to take into account what kind of space I’m showing in, and what peopl...

I’ve been thinking about the outro of your song “Gemini Eyes,” specifically the line, “I’m made of many.” I imagine the lyric is pointing to something else narratively, but it also made me think about how you’ve worked across so many mediums, from music video directin...

The immediate thing I feel like I need to ask you about is the diary as a form, and how it feels to look back at your old entries and to make them public. You also added annotations to your original diary entries from 2004 to 2008, inserting thoughts and context from your 2026 perspective.

Revisiting them has been fascinating. The younger self is not ...

We’ve been friends a while, but were first acquaintances in college, where the film school loomed large (though neither of us went there). I knew people then who made music videos to illustrate the extremity of their imaginations for no money. This was a way to become a big film director. Well into your career, you still make videos—and

I have to start at the very beginning. With an inventor for a father and a storyteller for a mother, is there one memory from childhood that captures what it actually felt like to grow up between them?

My father used to bring home things that were broken from the lab, things they were throwing out. He himself was a tinkerer and loved to fix things. He...