ANSWER: I wanted to have control and I wanted to violate codes. In the first version of the project, I tended to select people between the ages of 18 and 25 and a lot of black men. For a while I thought about kissing only black people?

QUESTION: Because you like black people?

ANSWER: Not really … I like everything.

QUESTION: When you select people, do you try to select people that you think are attractive. Or do you try not to make your own personal taste enter into it?

ANSWER: That depends on the day. Every day is different. Sometimes I get attracted to a certain person and I want to talk to them. Other times I just find that the background, or the way they dress, looks good with me. It really depends on the day. I just you just go with the flow, as they say. It was part of the original concept that I would not have to plan it that much. I just want go out with my camera and do it.

QUESTION: Kissing Project made me very aware of work environments and street environments. In a certain way your are intruding into banal environments, like go out to meet guys in work uniforms who have to lay down their tools. Did you think about that at all?

ANSWER: Yes I like these places where you are not supposed to do this kind of thing. That is why I like supermarkets. I did it once in the vegetable section of a grocery store. I tried to kiss in Home Depot. I noticed that a lot of guys there are either married and very domestic, or gay. I often wondered why I couldn’t get a kissing partner in Home Depot.