1. What did you want to be when you grew up?
A builder, like my grandfather.
2. When did you decide to pursue art as a career?
I didn't, it was by accident
3. How would you describe your work to a complete stranger?
I wouldn't bother
4. What is the most important idea, issue, dilemma or thing that you want to address in your art?
Human consciousness and the politically, cultural and personal implications of it.
5. What are the most important influences that have moved you as an artist?
A wonder for the world of the senses (a sensual world) and the realisation that we - humans - can play with this to manufacture meaning.
6. Do you visualise your Art before creating? Do you know what it will look like before you begin? What's your process?
It is a vague visualisations that never manifests as it does in my mind - how could it? On this note, I should probably try not to make art that ascribes by a vague image in my mind… but I stupidly, and perennially, try
7. How important do you think it is for artists to know about art history, and why?
Important to know but not whilst creating. Temporary amnesia is good for creation
8. How do you define success, and what keeps you going?
Success is happiness; of course things like money, power, status do have an impact on happiness (unless we're enlightened?). Of course to what degree such factors influence the level of our happiness is probably up to us
9. What are some fun facts about you that may or may not be directly related to your art?
I do things that no one could imagine in different contexts to the degree that I surprise myself, at least once a week. I also see every day wasted in which I don't dance, sing and laugh at myself at least once a day (that was stolen from Nietzsche).
10. What hangs on your walls? Do you collect the work of other artists?
I wish I had a Max Ernst on my wall, so there is an empty space for that but otherwise there are a few Indian myths, in which I wonder whether I should pray to them or not, and a few images My wife and I took and enjoy to ponder when the sun goes down…. when we look hard enough they move and dance for us like in a dream.
