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I wanted to be in charge of directing the story, creating the narrative. It was very much about snatching that bag.

— Ja'Tovia Gary

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Using what you have to make what you want, I’m obsessed with the notion that the idea of the thing outweighs the materials.

If experimental wasn’t marginalized and diminished, I would have no problem being called experimental.

I feel like that’s very much a bedrock for a lot of the work that I do now.

It’s not about being exclusionary, it’s about centring who I believe are the most vulnerable people in society. The people who are my reflections.

When you’re in a BFA program, it’s like, ‘we’ve got to go hardcore realism,’ and either you’re going to be a slave, or you’re going to be a cook.

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