Byrne Outside: Talking with David Byrne

"Yeah. In a way I feel like I’m not making any critical or judgmental comments on the content, say on drug paraphernalia or drug use or weapons or money or whatever. Not in a really direct, overt way, anyway. But I’m trying to subvert the whole stylistic approach of advertising."

Talking Pictures

"I find that's a pretty recurring theme that I didn't notice at first but began to see in my work after a while: that search for the definition of the sacred," he says. "By extension it's an attempt to understand what might be sacred in our modern world. Of course I don't have answers, but my work is a way of looking, trying to see the world through some kind of filter or lens."

David Byrne: Desire

"The second group, called Stairway to Heaven, included images of street weapons combined in whimsical ways with colorful paper monies from around the world."