I found the process of creating art the old-fashioned way to be boring and thoughtless. It was easy for me to recreate reality through drawing and paint. The challenge for me was to create images, which require the viewer to examine the work with determination and read it much like a poem.

I consider my work successful if the viewer finds a need to return to a previously viewed painting because they might have missed something.

It's very much random, almost like a slot machine for kids. It's the aspect of chance that I like.

I don't even remember which school it was. But I was like, I'm not even interested in majoring in art history.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

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