When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

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

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.

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.

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

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.