Anonymous
asked:
How much does a sense of place (New York vs. Toronto vs. Cape Breton, etc.) affect your work?

I think it has a real influence!  But it’s not something I can describe now, I’d have to think about it a while.  I always tell people that New York was an amazing place to be as a young artist for a while, because it lit a fire under you in a way I haven’t seen since.  Everyone around you was making amazing work, everyone was working hard.  You never knew who you were going to see at an event.  Every day I would wake up in my New York apartment and think, I have to be better at what I do today than I was yesterday.  Or I will probably die.