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

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

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

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

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.