Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.