It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.