"For me, scientific research is just a minor subset of perversion. It is a particular way of exploring the forbidden. Life on earth is curious, intuitive and creative. Those things are not rationally explainable. There are invisible worlds all around us. So, scientists want to reveal them in ways that are repeatable, empirical and reductive. We artists may be looking for equally important isolated instances of amazingness, anomalous and singular, personal and subjective. We poke and prod, sniff and stare, even into those areas that defy the social norm. The process of analysis assumes, A Priori, that the unknown is seductive, that secrets unfold when interrogated. Otherwise, why look any deeper? And the methods of interrogation are extreme. Often, you must destroy something to comprehend it. It is for these reasons that I refer to the processes of artistic and scientific discovery as perverse practices."
