“My art making method is visceral, with brush in hand—fueled by loud music, emotion, caffeine… and the love of organization, and hierarchy. I’m also influenced by many disciplines, especially in the abstract form”
“Art making is about stepping away…you’ve got to step away and come back to it before you decide what’s next. There’s times I feel I’m forcing a decision…and it always goes badly, then I have to start again or take something apart”
“The only way to get unstuck is to keep making [art]... the ‘creative block’ is a myth, you’ve got to have courage to make sh_t… failure is a very useful tool. You know that this didn’t work, that didn’t work, [so what] you’ve done it wrong, that’s super important”
“Sometimes I make the mistake of asking people what they think of a piece before it’s finished…that’s me feeling insecure… ‘tell me I’m good, tell me this is great’...it’s that critical voice, I recognize that [internal] critical voice, that’s some kind of ancient sh_t, that’s not really me”
