The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to political critique. It doesn't communicate in a way that's subversive enough.

I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research and palazzo research that I'm planning to use for the upcoming works.

Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.