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

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

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

I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are.

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