When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
