Wayne Thiebaud? Sounds like something that he would do. He was one of my teachers in school. Was the bread edged with color so that it kind of vibrated—if so, it’s Thiebaud.

And for the rest of you…art school or even the arts department in a university is hard. It’s amazing anyone comes out of that process intact and able to continue to create art. I know that the work done in college was not significant work at all, and even what came out of it for a few years after. So don’t let the bastards get you down.

For a long time, I did not paint, although I am getting there….I’ve found I have a passion for portals, doors, arches…..places where negative space is the big part of the composition. I also really like the abstract in nature….where a small slice becomes this abstract that in itself is interesting. I think it’s about potential, but still processing it.

For a while I was doing work with lots of armless women….which now I look back on and realize it was about a lack of agency in the world, feeling helpless. At some point, they got arms and then it was uninteresting as a topic.