Quotes by Laurel Nakadate

Laurel Nakadate

[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me – this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear – the original reason we take pictures, right?

Blow

Fall

Photography

A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it’s impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I’m always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It’s like hunting and gathering for me.

Hunting

New York

Song

A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn’t really have much in their life, so maybe I’m looking for someone who’s lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.

Loneliness

Lonely

People

A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I’m revealing my loneliness as much as they’re revealing theirs.

Fun

Loneliness

Men

After you die, your body is just there. Isn’t it kind of embarrassing that your body is going to be there and you have no say or control over it? Somebody’s going to have to deal with it. I’ve always respected people who kill themselves and find a way to get rid of the body. Very clean. Lost at sea. I can see why they do that. There’s nothing left.

Body

People

Sea

Also, I’m drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I’m interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we’re still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

Comfort

Desire

Moments

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Ideas

Imagination

Photography

Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, “That’s me.” I think, “This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?”

Character

Thinking

Video

As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn’t mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.

Believe

Mean

Real

Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

Laughing

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Art

Artist

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Bigs

Blow

Body

Brave

Brother

Character

Coffee

Comfort

Connections

Crazy

Crime

Dancing

Dark

Desire

Discomfort

Eight

Eye

Fall

Falling In Love

Fiction

Focus

Fun

Get Better

Gone

Good Things

Hard Times

Heart

Heartbroken

Home

Hunting

Hurt

Ideas

Imagination

Immature

Important

Inspired

Interesting

Islands

Laughing

Lenses

Light

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Looks

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Quotes by Laurel Nakadate

Laurel Nakadate

A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world with someone who doesn’t really have much in their life, so maybe I’m looking for someone who’s lonely and wants to try to create something with me as a subject for my videos.

A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I’m revealing my loneliness as much as they’re revealing theirs.

Also, I’m drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I’m interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we’re still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, “That’s me.” I think, “This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?”

Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

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