"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"The Orientalist" (1999)
"The Orientalist," 1999
Watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper, 60 x 40 inches
Private collection, New York
Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on paper, 60 x 40 inches
Private collection, New York
Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"I have an ongoing project that has to do with Sir Richard Burton, the nineteenth-century explorer. One of the stories that stuck with me was about monkeys that he kept in his quarters when he was a young officer...The thing about this monkey picture is Richard Burton is keeping forty monkeys in his quarters when he’s a young officer to learn their language. There’s something just right away that strikes me as humorous in the quintessentially super-eccentric British way and their mode of building an empire which was carried out by these kinds of eccentrics"
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