It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.