Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

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.

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

One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

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

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.