December 5, 2007 - "The Artist’s Statement" « PREVIOUS - ARCHIVE - NEXT »
No, no, no, Mikey. Here's how you draw a lion. See? You color it yellow and give him a curly, orange mane. But I was trying to express the lions predicament! That in order for him to live, another must die. For all his physical power, survival is a desperate, zero-sum struggle. I was trying to capture THIS tragic idea of a lion! Lions don't have ideas. Put a squiggly orange mane on there, or you get an F. Ms. Dorsey is onto my bullshit.