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It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

I'm not a big fan of visual effects.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

I have a visual imagination.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.