Tuazon oscar

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a sculpture is a hole in the world

portrait by TODD COLE
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
All artworks courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
EVA PRESENHUBER, Zurich, New York / LUHRING AUGUSTINE, New York

RAINWATER, 2017, THERMOPLASTIC PIPE, TREE TRUNKS, PHOTO BY MARC DOMAGE

OLIVIER ZAHM — You were born Oscar Hansen on July 9, 1975, in a geodesic dome your parents built in the woods in Indianola, Kitsap County, Washington. Is that right? Can you tell us about your childhood?

OSCAR TUAZON — I grew up with the sense that a house is an experiment in living, and my parents were building a lot while I was a kid. We lived in a series of houses over the years in Indianola and rural Kitsap Peninsula, and my parents were part of a community of craftspeople, writers, and poets. A lot of…