Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

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'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

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 certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.