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 made a body of work, which was like trying to make movies on a wall and was made up of all different images and materials. I had the aspiration to make movies because I thought that was the cycle. I had this insane egomaniac idea that I could make movies because I made these gigantic art projects.

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

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

My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

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 can't come up with the titles. My wife hates my titles. She doesn't even want to know about them.