There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.
