Passages: On Ambition

"A steady drive, without expectation. An acceptance that to be an artist is to commit to a lifelong apprenticeship to mastery over what cannot truly be mastered, since the definition of art—as with the evaluation of excellence—is ever shifting and always subjective. Accepting the fact of this—indeed, even embracing it will return you to that most important form of ambition that I mentioned earlier, the ambition for the world.....This ambition will keep your mind on the work, what matters most; as much as possible, let the work be everything; for the work will save you."

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Install shot from Colony's Pas de Deux, 2019. 

Studio shots from Allied Maker, Grain and Hiroko Takeda.