I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.
I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."
I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.
When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.
