I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

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

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

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

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.

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