As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

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

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

I love flying buttresses!

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.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.