When I Was Young, It Was An

We As Beings Are Very Contradictory, Complicated Creatures That Work In Our Best Interest And Against Our Best Interest. In A Certain Way, I Want My Work To Have All That Messiness.

Life Is Much Larger Than How We Image It, Always, But Society Can Be Constricting In Ways.

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.

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.

It's Fun, In A Way, To Explore What's Risky In One's Life.