IOtA: What artists inspire you? What else inspires you?
TL: I am inspired by contemporary and past artists, but I find that my best thoughts come from cross pollination with other disciplines. Literature inspires me, my friends and what they do, art blogs, science blogs, engineering blogs— they all add small pieces of thoughts into a balance, and one day one of those totally disparate ideas will add the final chunk and I will have a new idea.
I would say that I work hard on a daily basis in my practice, and with that comes new ideas and new projects. It is that work, and the world I absorb while doing it, which inspires me more than any one painting or person.
IOtA: What was your experience like as a Swarthmore artist?
TL: I had an amazing time at Swarthmore. The Art and Art History Department is such a great family to be a part of, and I had a wonderful cohort of Senior Majors to share the experience with.