You Can Have Fantasies About

I Had Stopped Making Figures, And Then I Began Making Images Of Animals In Nature, Which Was A Way To Introduce The Figure.

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.

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

Source Of Inspiration. The Mak Is A Museum That Has Had A Profound Effect On Me As An Artist And Art Viewer.

It Is Very Different When You Age. The Things That Are Significant, Or What Drives You, Or The Physical Experience Of Being Driven, Changes Over Time.