“I left home because I was getting too comfortable. Comfortable with the type of work I was creating, comfortable around the people I had known…
“My first trip after Sarah passed was to the Grand Canyon…so I think that trip and that sense of awe…felt like I was connected to…
“The analogy I always use is that we are on this table as a society, but we don’t see that we are getting pushed closer…
“I was like, If I spend as much time working on my own stuff as I do working at this desk I could probably make…
“I want nuanced reflections and questions…that’s why I like literature…if a book didn’t do that you would not be interested and you would throw it…
“As an artist I began to feel that I was making collectibles for wealthy people…with apex I turned into more of an educator…and the fellowship…
“I looked back on my life and was like, I’ve done a lot of tearing down, a lot of dismantling of my life to move…
“I think even in storytelling and making pictures there’s so much noise and it’s so busy and here’s this conflict and this violence and for…
“That was at the very end of Thailand, I was just starting to think I didn’t want to play poker anymore and I was starting…
“When the shelling got too bad my mom would hide us in the bathroom and say it’s just raining really hard and this is the…