I don't want the ideas to be limited by what I can physically do. The ideas come first.

Now that other people have my works, it's really important to me that what they have has longevity.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

Materials are very important to me, and always have been.