"I use a lot of repetition. And it becomes a filmic way of talking because as you put the same image after the other, even though it’s the exact identical image, everyone sees something changing from one image to the next."
"Practice," video stills (2003)
"It’s a simple proposition: I just want to play basketball, and I just happen to have this on. But politically, culturally, I’m being very iconoclastic. You just don’t put a hoop dress on a black male body and go play basketball. It became increasingly difficult: the dress was an obstacle. I would fall and get up, stumble and get up. Sometimes I would make the shots; sometimes I wouldn’t. But I would always get up. And for me, it was really about roadblocks on every level- cultural, gender, racial."
- Mark Bradford
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