 Color is an intense experience on its own. |
| I'm an average person. |
| I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences. |
| I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me. |
| My latest works are these things with light bulbs. |
| As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. |
| When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. |
| There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make. |
| I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time. |
| Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological. |
| Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. |
| When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting. |
| I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references. |
| But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion. |
| However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it. |
| Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing. |
| I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things. |
| It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. |
| I think that some works are more accessible than others. |
| I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that. |
