I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my repertoire.

I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.