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.

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.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

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.

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

For all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.

My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.