I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.
When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.
I believe I was a codependent out of the womb and have been struggling to free myself from its vice-like grip for many, many years.
In my 20s, I was leaving university, getting married, or having a baby. And then, in my 30s, I was just keeping my head above water. When I hit 40, I thought, 'I have got to get a grip of my life and really point it in the direction I want it to go rather than just swim hard against the current.'
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.
I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.
Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
Push ups actually target your chest, however if you touch your thumb and forefingers together to make a diamond shape with your hands, you are doing a close grip push up, and this is really going to hit your triceps.
