It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

The slides are the way art history is taught. It's the way artists and art historians learn about art. Even now, a good portion of your art history classes is taught with slides, not digitally.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.