"Painting is for me a way into things I do not understand. These include figures like Don Juan and Narcissus, the walls of the Scrovegni Chapel, the work of Wallace Stevens, the songwriter Adrianne Lenker, the fact of being an artist, Picasso, memories and dreams, organic materials and their suggestive capacities, the problem of meaning-making, photography, languages I cannot speak, ancient texts that survive in fragments, inevitability, accident, uncertainty, and time."