Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.

When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.