The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.

I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.