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.

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

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.

Sometimes a collage element I hit upon can inspire the entire drawing.

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.

I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.