Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.