I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.
Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
I've always been curious about the things that I'm afraid to look at, that make me embarrassed or bother me.
Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy.
For me, collages manage to - it satisfies all of my madness, like I'm able to make these obsessive things, but then I'm also able to make these very strong statements. I don't know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there's sort of a power.
Born Free is an idea that came from a place of deep respect for the delicate cycle of life. How incredible to be able to work with gifted designers who, as mothers, recognize what the devastating loss of a child could mean and how easily that loss can be avoided.
I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.
The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it's only a layperson's obsession. The way I visualise what's at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I'm swimming in the sea.
I keep things moving along with a seriously loving, caring, and brilliant man, a fierce group of friends - and really strong coffee.
My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.
While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.
I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.
I feel that art is beyond language.
One of the things I'm interested in is not just women but the female qualities that are present in everyone.
I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.
Equal rights for women and queer folks!
Motherhood is the ultimate call to sacrifice.
I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
I do all I can to make my world a better place to live in for me and for my kids as well.
