What is your genetic makeup?
My mother was both Native American and African American, my father was African American. My great-great-grandmother was a slave. I grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side of New York.

Please describe your working environment and how it effects your process.
I feel lucky to have a real studio where space is not an object all the time. Without it I don’t know what I would do.

Do you believe that (as Peter Tosh expressed) that the United States’ fiscally generous policy of space exploration is a horrible waste of valuable cultural resources (money) that could be spent on the arts? Yes or No? How?
I would like more money spent on arts but I also would like to be an astronaut.

Please comment on the virtues and vices of being alone while you create art.
I can create in front of people, but I feel most comfortable painting alone.
With very loud music.

To what extent do you believe an artist manipulates the future or influences the present through their art?
If an artist becomes famous then their work will effect someone somewhere.
The work has to get seen. The world will not be changed by unseen work. I want to change the world. 

Please extrapolate here on your mastery of drip patterns, intended arc, achieved line, color harmonics, overt experimentation, etc?
Most of my work is mixed media. I don’t think great work is bound to any medium.

How does the physical context of your art work’s exhibition effect the meaning of your art? For example, how does your art speak in a "Google" context? In a 111 Minna Gallery context? In a studio context?
I paint things I like to look at.

What is the ideal context for your work?
I am still looking for the ideal context, but I probably won’t recognize it when if presents itself.

What technical perfection have you achieved that only experience has allowed you in your chosen medium? For example, if I were to pick up a can of spray paint and try to emulate you, what advice would you give me?
I try to improve my technique all the time with oil,acrylics and spray. Advice: practice, practice.

Do you associate yourself with any artist past or present? Whose studio would YOU like to visit? Who do you believe would appreciate YOUR studio?
I have been told I’m antisocial, but I would have liked to visit Andy Warhol’s factory.

What level of artistic expression do you aspire to?
Sculpture, metal, glass and oils.