I Believe In A Visual Language That

My Work Is About Making Candy For The Eyes. It's About Grabbing Your Attention. Even Though My Work Is Appearing In Magazines I Am Trying To Make A Large Picture. I Want My Photographs To Read Like A Poster.

The Matriarchal Society 1300 Years Ago In Egypt Was A Peaceful Society; That's Where You Had No War For Thousands Of Years! When They Switched To Patriarchal Society, When The Male Energy Ruled, We Became Obsessed With The Greed. Now We Are In This Time Of Intense Greed!

People Will Get Tired Of Overly Retouched Images Soon And They'll Want Something Different. If People Have Too Much Reality, They Want Fantasy. What Matters Most Is What The Image Communicates. I Remember The First Roll Of Film I Shot At High School, The Contact Sheet Went From These Really Worthy Images Of Cracks In The Wall And Ended Up With All Of My Dancer Friends Naked In Renaissance Poses.

I Was Working In This Very Bombastic Style. I Didn't Really Know About Style. I Didn't Think About It: I Did What I Was Interested In, What I Was Attracted To, What I Was Drawn To. I Was Drawn To Color, And I Was Drawn To Humor, And I Was Drawn To Sexuality And Spontaneity. It Was All Really Intuitive. I Never Really Thought, "well This Is The Style...

What's Shocking Is Cruelty And Torture, And That's Become Our Entertainment. Kids Can Play Violent Video Games, But God Forbid They Look At A Naked Woman. That's Pornography, That's Perverse. No!