The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.