If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light, and the desperate cycle of oil-based products that continually degrade the environment.

I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.