I'm In General A Nostalgic Person, But

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.

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.

Life Is Much Larger Than How We Image It, Always, But Society Can Be Constricting In Ways.

I Had Stopped Making Figures, And Then I Began Making Images Of Animals In Nature, Which Was A Way To Introduce The Figure.

It’s One Of My Loose Theories That Catholicism And Art Have Gone Well Together Because Both Believe In The Physical Manifestation Of The Spiritual World.