Striped Pants, West Indian Carnival, Brooklyn, 1996 20" x 24" Chromogenic print Courtesy of the artist Striped Pants, West Indian Carnival, Brooklyn, 1996 "I travel for the sake of encounter with cultural differences, in behavior and dress, or expression. The phenomenal magnetism of these differences would be limited, were I to yield to any temptation to judge them. To celebrate 'otherness' would be, I think, condescending; to disparage it, mean-spirited. Class, race, and ethnicity are naturally meaningful and emotional issues, but for me, they are first of all, visual stimuli. They add to what is diverse in the world, and I perceive that my kind of images cannot thrive without diversity 'out there'." (Max Kozloff, as quoted in Crossed Purposes exhibition catalog, pages 12-13, interview conducted by Moira Roth)