The reason I'm motivated to do something is because it's always really personal. For example, I always felt uncomfortable and insecure driving by strip bars; it wasn't like I was just morally opposed to them, it just made me feel like I couldn't compete. I would generally set up across the street from a strip bar and paint the street, the parked cars and the buildings. Just by being there, it made it less taboo for me. When I finished those paintings, it made me feel like I owned those spaces and I no longer felt uncomfortable, especially after my friend, Rosie, rode by one day on her bike as I was painting the Body Shop. My series on San Diego strip bars are generally 36-by-48 inches and they took a couple of months, because each painting included a reproduction of a Toile de Jouy, which is an elaborate printed textile pattern from France.