I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

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.

When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.

There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

You'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.