What impulse caused the change from visual arts to literary arts?
I’ve been making art all my life. I didn’t choose writing over artwork. As I got older, the stories from my childhood came flooding back to me. I started writing on my artwork, bits of stories, but ultimately, the art work wasn’t big enough to hold my thoughts. Writing came in search of me. Sometimes I’d get up in the middle of the night and write and write. I chose art as a career. Writing chose me. It’s seems that the art and the writing are so connected, almost impossible to separate now. I’m currently living in New York City. On October 21st, I’m reading from my new book Fierce at the opening of my first New York solo art show. It’s at Kerrigan-Campbell Gallery in the East Village. The artwork features images taken from Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter and Fierce. Is Fierce a sequel to Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter? Both books hold up on their own. Fierce is not a sequel. I say that…. yet, the second one picks up where the first one left off. Describe your visual art. It’s very pe
