Honeysuckle interview: FUCKING NEW YORK, explained (sort of)

I spoke with Honeysuckle magazine’s Ronit Pinto about FUCKING NEW YORK — what led to it, what it became, and how a series of images turned into something stranger, riskier, and more personal than I expected.

The work started from a feeling I couldn’t quite name—a mix of sexual charge, spiritual intensity, comedy, grief. The images ended up somewhere between poignant and absurd, melancholy and hilarious. There’s a quote in the interview I still come back to: “Desire is always in search of an object.”

Sometimes that object is a person. Sometimes it’s success. Sometimes it’s the city itself. Whatever impossible thing you came here to chase. One of the participants in the project, my dear friend Jane Cogger, said something that still feels like the project’s entire philosophy: “Delight the delightful and disgust the disgusting.”

That line should’ve been on the cover.