American - Artist | 1988 -
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
Martine Syms
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
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I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.
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I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.
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I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
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I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
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Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
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Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.
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There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.
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I played sports growing up, and I worked out a lot. Then, when I moved back to L.A., I just fell off everything.
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It's very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.
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