I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

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.

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

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

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

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.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.