Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'

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