I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

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