Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.
