Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.
This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
All art is about appealing to emotion.
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.