I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.