UV: Where would your ideal show be held?
AM: Right now, my ideal show would be held in a desolate area --like a desert, or out in a field somewhere. It would be the only thing around for quite a distance. I'd like to build some kind of structure that looks like it just kind of landed there. I'd hang my work inside it and everyone could go in and look around.

UV: Tell us about your method.
AM: Typically, when I start a painting I have a vague story that prompts it. The story roughly relates to whatever is going on in my life at the time, but almost as if I lived on another planet. The paintings eventually become the stories themselves. I generally work in series, so each painting is like a separate chapter of a book. Once the first one is made, the rest of them come pretty easily. When all the paintings are together, its like having the whole book and the whole story gets told.

UV: Tell us about your studio.
AM: My studio is a storage unit on the Alameda naval base. I share it with 3 other painters. It's a really barren and bizarre area on the water surrounded by other storage units. Someone once made the comment that it looked like some kind of apocalyptic landscape. It's a good setting for me to work in.

UV: How does your artwork relate to your environment?
AM: Because my studio is in such a stark environment, I think I have a lot of freedom to start paintings with a clean slate. I can kind of invent my own imaginary environment and make art that visually describes it.

UV: What are your biggest influences?
AM: People, outer space, inner space, biology, emotions, the future, imagination, advertising, memories, and time.