You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

I go through the arc of a relationship with every single painting that I do.

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