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.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

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

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

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

Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.