When Studio Art Started Being

As A Child I Prayed That My Calling Be Revealed - But Not With Expectation And Not With A Destination. I Became An Artist Because I Didn't Know What To Do And I Thought It Was Really Fun To Make Things.

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 Didn't Start To Be An Artist Myself Until I Was 24.

I First Had No Interest In Figuration Whatsoever.

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.