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

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.

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.

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

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.

Color is an intense experience on its own.