“I enjoyed making portraits, but not in the way artists made them in the nineteenth century. My portraits can be looked at from many different perspectives. I don’t like the idea of “art for art’s sake.” Good art makes a statement that can be taken different ways. 

Some of my portraits reference ancient Egyptian work. I am fascinated by the relationship between Egyptian art and high-tech forms. In fact, the more I look at Egyptian art, the more I believe it to be high-tech. I am also fond of the neoclassical portrait busts of the eighteenth-century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, who made portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, Voltaire, and other notable figures who were his contemporaries.