One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

One works without thinking how to work.

Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.

There was very little art in my childhood.