Taco Hidde Bakker

“Ken Schles: Image and text are two ways to probe existence. They operate differently and inform each other in rich and profound ways, but the two never meet except in a kind of long-distance dialogue. It’s a dance I’m entranced with, but I can’t say I understand it.”
― Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain

“Taco Hidde Bakker: Originality is an overrated concept. Nothing that we have can ever be properly ours. It is a good thing to acknowledge influence, and he who is open to many influences can in the end participate in a main stream (without becoming mainstream per se).
Ken Schles: Linking into that stream is empowering. So much more unites us than we let ourselves believe. So much that we think original is nothing of the sort. Culture builds on itself and replicates itself. Tribal culture, capitalist culture thrives on highlighting dissimilarities, but shared aspects of culture unite us (and interest me). Our cultural regurgitations not only bind us together along points of unity, they replicate and radiate through us in thought and action. We mimic culture outright or mark it with unique signatures specific to our time in space.”
― Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain