Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.