My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.