“I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was…” — Claes Oldenburg

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.