Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.