It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.