There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

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

There was very little art in my childhood.