I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

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

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

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

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

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.