I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
