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My work is about that failures and slippages of meaning that arise in the production of fine art objects. I feel that it is when a work of art fails, when it unintentionally ruins the subject it means to exalt, that it most poignantly underscores the basic impulse behind its creation: the often-fraught and infrequently-realized desire to communicate something of one's own understanding of the world and to locate oneself in history.

Steven Leyden Cochrane