Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

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.

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.'

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

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

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