The Incas in South America believe in Pachamama as the great creator. Mother Nature is the underrated artist to us human beings, especially to me. She is like all the artists and common artisans who quietly work, inspiring others.
Q: What is the longest time you went without creating art?
A: Never.
Art has great potential and risk. I believe, as I am an immigrant, that risk and hope are part of my DNA.
I don’t think I will ever achieve everything that I want because, after I achieve one goal, I always find a new one.
The most important quality in an artist is a willingness to risk identity and give distinctive, formal expression to it.
The quality I most admire in an artist is the ability to be emotionally open in what can be a cruel, dismissive world.
The best thing about art in the era of social media is that art will outlast the era of social media.
Becoming an artist was never a deliberate decision. It just crept up on me slowly and is still skulking around the corners of my life.
Social media turns works of art into objects of rapid consumption, sometimes supersonic, which I think makes us dangerously insensitive to the enormous amount of work, time, and sacrifice that lies behind each post, each evanescent image.
I like to make art that I do not understand. It shows, unrelentingly, that other worlds are possible.