The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

My message for people to not take anything for granted, to respect what they might not understand.