“In a way, I’m making forgeries. I try to keep the techniques and materials as similar as I can to those of the Old Masters. I think that’s what makes the anachronisms work, and I want to give my paintings the appearance of age.”

“I was always interested in religious paintings, and the more I learned, the further I went back in time. There is such a diversity of medieval and Renaissance styles across geographies and spanning centuries, and that means there’s room to use the era’s codes while still making them my own—all while talking about what I want to talk about: the apocalypse, ecological collapse, and planetary exile.”

"There’s always some sort of ecological disaster in my backgrounds, or else you see the consequences of a disaster. Maybe it’s a population being forced to flee, people wearing hazmat suits, or astronauts leaving the planet."