You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!

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

I love flying buttresses!

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.