I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.

How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

After I did the drawings of trees combining them with words, I started doing - I did that for a very short time. Then it kind of - that sort of evolved into just showing the branches of a tree coming down into the trunk and then going into the root system. So I showed both the branches and the roots of a tree, which were about equal. There is as much going on under the ground as is going on above the ground, which you can see.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.