You Don't Have To Reinvent The Wheel

I'm Not By Nature A Terribly Intuitive Person; I Need To Build A Situation In Which I Will Behave More Intuitively, And That Has Really Changed The Life Of My Work - I Found A Way To Trick Myself Into Being Intuitive.

Neurologically, I'm A Quadriplegic, So Virtually Everything About My Work Has Been Driven By My Learning Disabilities, Which Are Quite Severe, And My Lack Of Facial Recognition, Which I'm Sure Is What Drove Me To Paint Portraits In The First Place.

I Build A Painting By Putting Little Marks Together-some Look Like Hot Dogs, Some Like Doughnuts.

Sometimes I Really Want To Paint Somebody And I Don't Get A Photograph That I Want To Work From.

Art Saved My Life In Two Ways. It Made Me Feel Special, Because I Could Do Things My Friends Couldn't, But It Also Gave Me A Way To Demonstrate To My Teacher That, Despite The Fact That I Couldn't Write A Paper Or Do Math, I Was Paying Attention.