English - Artist | 1956 -
I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by Marcel Duchamp called 'Large Glass.' It looked like an aerial photograph or a view through a microscope.
Cornelia Parker
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Dust, in the end, settles on everything.
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My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.
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A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.
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I can consciously say I like squashing things because I saw 'Tom and Jerry' films or Charlie Chaplin in 'Modern Times.' That's true.
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I don't drive for pleasure. It's purely to get from A to B.
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I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.
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Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.
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I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.
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Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.
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The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.
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I want to make work that reflects different times and processes.
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