The symbol plucks all the strings of the human spirit at once—speech is compelled to take a single thought at a time. Only a symbol can combine disparate elements into a unitary expression. — Gaston Bachelard
I didn't see a major difference between a poem, a sculpture, a film or a dance. A gesture has for me the same weight as a drawing: draw, erase, draw erase—memory erased. While I was studying art history I looked carefully at the space of painting, films and sculpture—how illusions are created within a framed space, and how to deal with a real physical space with depth and distance. When I switched from sculpture to performance I just went to a space and looked at it. I would imagine how it would look to an audience, what they would be looking at, how they would perceive the ambiguities and illusions of the space. An idea for a piece would come just from looking til my vision blurred. I also began with a prop sucha as a mirror, a cone, a TV, a story.

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