I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.