American - Artist | September 13, 1983 -
My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.
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My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.
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I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.
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I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.
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When you're an outsider, you don't have loyalties to anyone, so you can be cruelly honest if need be. The more you get inside, the more you are involved in polite networks of professional coercion that make people less honest.
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When you live in New York and are an artist and are interested in people, you meet a lot of people.
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You're demonstrating your own skills in a vulnerable way when you draw.
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I was involved in Occupy Wall Street as a participant and poster artist. 'Shell Game' is an attempt to do something bigger, to use whatever artistic powers I have to explore the excitements and betrayals of that year.
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The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body.
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No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.
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Sketching in general - anywhere, not just in Gitmo, but in life, in the world - is a profoundly disruptive act. Because you're creating something when you're kind of expected to consume or sit passively. I've always sketched things as a way to get into them, whether it was a fancy nightclub or, you know, to have kids think I was cool, whatever.
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I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.
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