Am I a struggling artist? [laughs] No.
I think I have this duality of the airy, floaty vibe to me and then there is the very down to earth thing. I think it comes from my background and my upbringing. I sure have moments where it’s total chaos at the studio or I’m on an island, and I find a little bit of paints and I’ll go meet with the local painters. We try to put together a frame and then I’m going crazy with it, just throwing shit all over the place. Then I try to refine it, or I just leave it raw.
Then there will be other moments where I’m doing a residency at a hotel somewhere and there isn’t a speck of paint on the wall or on the floor. Things are very clean. I’m using gloves. I have this beautiful apron that’s embroidered from my clothing line, and a camera is capturing the process. I don’t know, it’s moments. I really just am speaking through pixels or paints or colored mud, and when you’re speaking, sometimes you’re yelling. Sometimes you are speaking very calmly. Sometimes you have this entire speech, an entire monologue prepared in your mind. Most times you’re just free-styling, and that is, I think, why my work looks the way it sometimes do.