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V5 - Courtney Gregg : I love your work for many reasons; one is the voraciousness you have for a project. When you land on something, you really explore it in an almost obsessive way. I think that is a wonderful quality for an artist and I would like to talk about the obsessive nature of the way you work on a given project.
Cam Slocum : I would say that has changed over the years. The older I get I no longer want to bear out the essence of what the work might be about. I have learned to go with that process as a pivotal issue in terms of making work.
V5: You do not jump around. You take an idea, bear it out and struggle with one particular idea and I think that is relatively unusual for an artist.
CS: I think it is about common sense. I am always struggling with a way to get to the "work" or set up some way of working. I set parameters or confines that limit the number of choices and I like that. I work on one thing for a long time because I am interested in the strategy of the process.
V5: In your last series, you were doing quite a bit of calligraphy, a very minimal black and white, aesthetic. It was a very personal subject matter that you developed in an obscured way. This work is almost found subject matter, but still working with language and making puzzles out of the work.
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