“Used as a magazine cover, this was the first painting of a series that shares a color palette and particular tone. The most recent of all of the art shown here, the series marks another shift in my work. I’ve been experimenting with looser brushstrokes and a dirtier way of working. Although there is a structure to my work—here, for example, the hands, which anchor the image—I always make up the rest as I go along. I often just wing it. Of course, this has consequences. I’ve had to redo plenty of paintings because I didn’t think they worked. But the art director doesn’t see the failures. Now that I am very comfortable with what I do, I want to see how far I can take the abstractions and how they transform my work.”