I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.