Donald Baechler

I miss Dia. In the early '80s I was a guard at one of Dia's facilities in SoHo, and I'm sad that they closed their Chelsea space.

In the same way I accumulate objects, I also accumulate images, and I find them arranging themselves into categories, too. And some images insist on being painted; others don't.

Taxidermy is the one thing I collect that I've never used.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.