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Art Does Not In Fact Prove Anything. What It Does Do Is Record One Of Those Brief Times, Such As We Each Have And Then Each Forget, When We Are Allowed To Understand That The Creation Is Whole.

My First Show At Moma In New York Was Pictures Of New Developments Along The Eastern Edge Of The Rocky Mountains. They Were Housing Developments That Were Brutal In Many Ways, That Cared Almost Not A Thing For The Human Beings Inside. They Were Just Designed To Make Money.

When You Catch On To Your Awakening, The World Does Not Change. You Just See It Differently, That's All. You Acquire A Feeling Of Immortality. A Feeling Of Divine Bliss, So To Speak, When Things No Longer Have The Power To Affect You.

Many Have Asked, Pointing Incredulously Toward A Sweep Of Tract Homes And Billboards, Why Picture That? The Question Sounds Simple, But It Implies A Difficult Issue - Why Open Our Eyes Anywhere But In Undamaged Places Like National Parks?

At Our Best And Most Fortunate We Make Pictures Because Of What Stands Before Our Camera, To Honor What Is Greater And More Interesting Than We Are. We Never Accomplish This Perfectly, Though In Return We Are Given Something Perfect--a Sense Of Inclusion. Our Subject Thus Redefines Us, And Is Part Of The Biography By Which We Want To Be Known.