It Is Very Different When

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.

In Our Family, There Wasn't Anything Else Besides Art. Nothing Else In The World Existed. My Father Never Spoke About Going To A Movie Or Listening To Music, Other Than My Mother's Singing.

The Hardest Thing Is Remembering That You Have Some Complicity In The Things That Happen To You In Your Life.

I Think A Lot Of Making Art Is Listening To Yourself.