The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.
I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.
Stained glass enabled the modern world.
I love flying buttresses!
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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.
I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.
Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.
Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.
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.
As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.
I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.
Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.
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