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

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

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 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.

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