"Motherboard," for me, has four different levels: the bottom part is the water, vegetation, and growth. The second part is the world with figures and….

When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, inf….

Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For ….

People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something t….

As I work day after day, inspirations from different places go into the work. It's combination, but it's also comparative. I'll be reading two books ….

Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characte….

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work..

I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there..

I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] ….

When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japane….

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on….

I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning ….

My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down pro….

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categoriz….