Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

Even the hubris or the desire to go out into the world and find patterns that reflect back to yourself is so Lacanian and, like, mirrored, so as to be ridiculous. But there are very fixed sets of expectations that the world has about this work.

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.

There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.