On the Beauty of the Xerox Machine
'Music is such a big thing for me. I've recently gone back to using a turntable, and it's like moving back to film from digital cameras. It's a different commitment to listening. I've started buying every Alice Coltrane album I can get ahold of.'
Xerox 914 Office Copier (1959) by Haloid Xerox
'Think about what they enabled in terms of the self-distribution of D.I.Y. media, whether we're talking about posters or zines. There's something great about the loss of visual information in a photocopy. It transforms the image into something that reads as counterculture.'
Sneakers (1876) by Liverpool Rubber Company
'You don't really have to follow the pattern of a shoe any longer to make a sneaker, as long as they cover your feet. That's [also] the thing I love about art: It doesn't always have to adhere to practicality.'
Pencil (1795) by Nicolas-Jacques Conté
'In the studio, we use a lot of mechanical pencils because we try to keep all of our lines consistently the same width. It's a very primary tool of communication. And I just love the color of graphite.'
Mirror Ball (circa 1890s) patented by Louis Bernard Woeste (1917)
'It's such an iconic symbol of club culture — but also of queer culture. Even if no one else is in the room, when you look at a disco ball, you feel a call to the dance floor.'
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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