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.

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.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.