I'm not unique in this. Artists are always seeing things. Obviously your eyes are always open, but you're always sort of looking at natural things, found objects, and associating them in one way or another with what you do. You are perceiving. I'm always looking around. I think most visual artists are visual animals in a way. We are avaricious. The eye must be avaricious. Everything can be subject matter. Anything can be subject matter.

I'm not terribly taken with the idea of being categorized as an Alabama artist or a Southern artist. I'm an artist. My subject matter tends to come out of what I know best, and that I feel most strongly about, which is a regional thing. My work tends to be regional, but I do hope that my work could be accepted, certainly looked upon universally, and I think that is what every artist hopes to achieve.