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

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.

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

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

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

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.

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