As a twin, I operate with twin desires.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.

I think it's possible to allow an artist to go beyond his borders and play.

What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

I try to create a place of disorientation.