““... the only thing I’m seeing is a blue sky and her blowing bubbles, but it doesn’t look like a bubble to me.””

““At first I was thinking about just have an image of the city and the sounds of stillness, but stillness is pretty quiet.””

““I imagined that Chainsaw is an ogre, a monster who eats the blood of the conifers.””

““The snake doesn’t just take discrete steps like other animals. It sort of slides- touching all of the ground in between where it starts and where it ends.””

““Because when you are that cold, it gets to the point where you do feel like you’re burning.””

““... all three of the responses could be tangentially related to chainsaws.””

“ “Their own power within this weird kind of world.””

““In my mind it’s almost in frustration- she’s turning away because nobody’s listening.””

““I wanted to assault the viewer in the same way that I felt assaulted by the colors and everything I was seeing in the image that I responded to.””

““She hijacked the spaceship- so she did get something out of the arrangement. It wasn’t exactly what he had in mind.””

““They needed to be conceptually different, and also look like an odd couple when you put rings on them.””

““It takes a lot of courage to step into what is essentially possibly another dimension.” ”

““I think [stories] are medicine- a really ancient medicine, and I think that they’re how humans have always made sense of our experiences on earth.””

““If you’re offered the inability to contextualize it, how do you approach that food?””

““I needed it to be specifically dreamy. “”

““What kinds of different labor are there?””

““I went with a blood orange, because they’re visually striking, and you have this weird gory juice that gets everywhere.””

““I say I didn’t like them, but by the end of it, we became friends.””

““Why do we give our attention to things that can’t benefit us and can’t benefit from our attention?””

““Maybe the mysterious part of the piece is where the bitterness is coming from.””

““Some kind of like faux spiritual/fruit juice thing.””

““We started with the image to find the sounds, but then we went from the sounds to find the lyrics.””

““I’ve never seen a fake flower that I thought was real!””

““It’s about experiencing a moment that felt kind of out of time, maybe a moment with something holy.””

“ “The bliss of this grapefruit, and it’s dripping on my face, and I’m just so happy and so blissed out that I just do not care.””

““There was a lot of viscerality and juxtaposition in the piece, and I thought I could make that almost hallucinatory.””

““Bitterness is supposed to be, objectively, an unpleasant experience.””

““Food can be used to connect us, to divide us, to help us cope with things, and separate us from each other and even from ourselves in some cases..””

““... if a fruit can be underrepresented.””