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

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.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.

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

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.