As a twin, I operate with twin desires.

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

While I can hire out the portrait, I don't, because it's just - that's where I shine. You know, that's my blood sport.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

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