I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to