Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.

In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.

For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.

In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.

I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most textiles are created by women. Generally, most stuff that's not in the canon is created by women.