It’s One Of My Loose Theories That

In Drawing, I Often Think Of Things As Flying Buttresses.

One Hopes That Each Piece Contains Enough Space For Several Narratives.

Now, It Is Much More Difficult For Young People Coming To New York. But Also When You're Young, You Have More Time To Interact With One Another, To Discover Yourself With People Of Your Generation.

You Start With A Generic Body, But I Think The First Wall You Hit With Portraiture Is Comprised Of History And Storytelling And The Nature Of Characters - Whether They Are Historical Or Coming From Literature Or Documentation. Those Are The References We Have To People, Besides Your Family, And The Intimacy Of Portraiture Is In The Specifics Of Individuals. For Me, It Came Out Of Doing Things About Animals.

I Trust My Work. It's A Collaboration With The Material, And When It's Viewed, It's A Collaboration With The World.