My artistic history starts at a very young age. I would often just draw things I had seen at museums, usually letting my imagination put a slightly different spin on them. This was likely an early expression of my belief that art is never simply documentation, and this carries over into all of my artistic endeavors, including writing and film-making (the narrative side of art has always greatly attracted me). Imagination drives my work in the sense that I will generally have something already rendered in my mind that just needs to be materialized, however, it plays a more important role when...more