Life Really Changes. And It

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

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.

I Got Into Animals By Drawing Hair Follicles. I Liked Drawing Hair, And From That I Got Into Feathers And Fur, Then Into Images Of Animals. The Patterning Is The Same, But The Proportions Of The Body Change From One Animal To The Next. A Lot Of It Is Just Geometry And Consciousness.

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

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.