I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

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.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.