"When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process."

"Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing."

"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion."

"Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality."

"I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time."

"Color is an intense experience on its own."

"I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that."

"As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me."

"I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me."

"There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make."

"However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it."

"I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences."

"When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting."

"My latest works are these things with light bulbs."

"I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references."

"For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?"