It's Fun, In A Way, To Explore

I Told The Students [at Yale] We Were Going To Talk About Love - I Meant Love In The Sense Of Devotions To One's Work - And About Half The Students Got Really Pissed Off.

It Was A Very Economically Depressed Time [the 80s] And Because Of That, There Was A Lot Of Space. Everything Was Relatively Dilapidated, And One Could Live On A Pretty Low Income. One Could Live Well Below The Poverty Line And Not Suffer Immensely.

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.

Source Of Inspiration. The Mak Is A Museum That Has Had A Profound Effect On Me As An Artist And Art Viewer.

My Iphone Has Changed My Life - I Spend Hours Taking Photos Of The Sidewalk As I Walk Down The Street. I Like The Casualness, That It's Low-resolution.