It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.