What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.
You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.