In America The Biggest Is The Best.

My Work Sanitizes It (emotion) But It Is Also Symbolic Of Commercial Art Sanitizing Human Feelings. I Think It Can Be Read That Way.... People Mistake The Character Of Line For The Character Of Art. But It's Really The Position Of Line That's Important, Or The Position Of Anything, Any Contrast, Not The Character Of It.

Im Interested In What Would Normally Be Considered The Worst Aspects Of Commercial Art. I Think Its The Tension Between What Seems To Be So Rigid And Cliched And The Fact That Art Really Cant Be This Way.

I Was At Rutgers University, And That Was A Center For Fluxus In A Way. But It Wasn't What I Was Interested In. All Of It Had An Impact - As Did Happenings - Because I Could See That Art Was Changing From Expressionism, Which I Was Doing At The Time, Or Thought I Was Doing. But It Wasn't The Direction I Really Wanted To Go.

I Suppose I Would Still Prefer To Sit Under A Tree With A Picnic Basket Rather Than Under A Gas Pump, But Signs And Comic Strips Are Interesting As Subject Matter.

I Take A Cliche And Try To Organize Its Forms To Make It Monumental. The Difference Is Often Not Great, But It Is Crucial.