If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?

I don't want to have anything to say, it just gets in the way. I think the journey of an artist is a journey of discovery and some engagements with paint, with the nature of material, with bodily things...One wants to open the story, not close it.

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