Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

My favorite kind of art to create is the kind that does not ask to be liked. Not decoration. Not content engineered for the feed. I’m drawn to images that leave a residue—where beauty is complicated by tension, and seeing becomes part of the subject itself. Desire, fear, intimacy, risk, performance, truth. The work that matters to me hits first, explains itself later if at all, and stays in the nervous system longer than opinion.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration less in subjects than in conditions: pressure, performance, desire, fear, ritual, surveillance, intimacy, ruin. It comes from cities, subcultures, cinema, poetry, protest, fashion, and the strange theater of how people construct themselves to be seen. I’m interested in the moment when the mask slips, or when the mask becomes more truthful than the face. That tension—between appearance and revelation—is where the work begins.

What would you do with $25,000?

With $25,000, I’d buy time to deepen the work and widen its reach. I’d fund production, prints, travel, and the making of finished forms—a book, an exhibition, a sustained body of work—but I’d also invest in education: workshops, research, and building spaces that inspire other people to see more clearly and make more fearlessly. Money is most useful when it becomes freedom, rigor, and transmission.