The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.

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