The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.