If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see them as more optimistic in a certain way. Even though it's very clear there's a level of sadness and disconnection, I think that they're really about trying to make a connection and almost the impossibility of doing so.

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.