One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.

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

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

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

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.