Jen, that is just it... for me, the art isn't about art or making anything that makes any sense... it is usually the lines I NEED to put into my skin... I start that way... the repeated lines and the deep color.... And somehow just doing those lines and marks with the same feeling I would do on my body makes the process start. I end up sometimes ripping the paper with as hard as I am drawing. So now I use very thick paper or cardboard - like the inside of a cereal box. The "STUFF" that comes out is so intense and it sometimes ends up as a picture I never would have expected - usually something from my past that was inside me trying to escape.

That is the only way I can describe it... just the deep deep pain and agony NEEDS to get out of the system ...