 My name is Oliver Jeffers and I make art for a living, tell stories. My medium is not isolated to one particular discipline. I use many different mediums. I mostly use oil paint, occasionally collage, sometimes insulation. For me the concept comes first so the execution is selected in whatever way is going to best support the concept. In my current body of work there's a few different things going on and some of it is about making an image and then taking it away, destroying it so you can't see it. In some cases that's putting a sheet of frosted glass in front of it. In other cases that's making a painting and then dipping it in paint or painting over the face. The other work is just sort of humorous takes on the things that I find around me. A lot of the inspiration just comes all the time. You never know when you're going to get an idea so I jot them all down and find that things sort of fall within a system and fall within a series. It's just a matter of staying on top of it. I've got a limited amount of time in this area. They've got a lot of ideas that I want to make happen. So I just try to make them happen. My neighborhood is either Cobble Hill or Boreham Hill. I've never really figured it out. I think we're right on the border. Some people call it Bokoka, which I don't really like. The curator of this building calls it Bubble Hill, which I like. I moved to Brooklyn five years ago. I'm not from around here, in case you couldn't tell by the way I talk English. I grew up in Belfast in Northern Ireland. I felt very at home in Brooklyn right from the very beginning. It's because frankly I'm surrounded by other people who want to accomplish as much as I do. That's inspiring. I feel very much at home here.