Art is important to me because it's always a willing third party. It can show you, as well as the rest of the world, exactly what you're feeling and thinking. It is self-investigative and self-liberating. Everything around you can just fade away. All you need is right in front of you, exploding in color, shape, sounds or words. You don't know what anything is, you have no idea what you're doing, you're just exploring. I've always wanted to be like my Great Grandmother. She was a fairly well known watercolorist in New York...more