Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

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.

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

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

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

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.

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