I'm In General A Nostalgic

When I Was Young, It Was An Exciting Time To Be In New York.

Life Really Changes. And It Gets Lighter, For The Most Part. You Tolerate Yourself And Others Better.

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.

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.

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.