Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

I'm thinking about the end of civilization. We may not keep growing like we are now. There must be an end of civilization. That's what I did as a show at the Palais de Tokyo, the 33 scenarios of how this civilization ends.

I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary.

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue.

When I wake up I just make it happen. My dreams come true- that is the artistic practice.

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.