Life Changes A Lot. I

I Like That Feeling When You’re Making Art, That You’re Taking The Energy Out Of Your Body And Putting It Into A Physical Object. I Like Things That Are Labor-intensive : You Make A Little Thing And Another Little Thing And Another Little Thing, And Eventually You See A Possibility.

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.

It's Just Disgusting That In This Society, The Majority Of Students In Art School Are Women, But They Amount To Less Than 30% Of What Is Shown In Museums. That Has Not Changed Radically.

I First Had No Interest In Figuration Whatsoever.

Life Really Changes. And It Gets Lighter, For The Most Part. You Tolerate Yourself And Others Better.