Word: cp
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...CP: There are loads of people who I love: Jan van Eyck, Uccello, Piero della Francesca. They're usually painters rather than sculptors, curiously enough. But, I suppose, writers possibly more. I think literature is very inspiring...
...CP: Have you heard of Wilkie Collins? He was a contemporary of Charles Dickens, he was sort of a melodrama man. He wrote these amazing cliffhanger novels, like The Woman in White and Moonstone, which I think are brilliant. I don't think they're necessarily that influential but they really fire up the imagination...
...CP: Yes, I did. I lived in the countryside, miles from anywhere. There weren't many children around to play with, so I spent a lot of time either reading or kind of making up. I lived on a small farm and much of my childhood was spent working--manual labor--stringing up tomato plants, milking the cows by hand, mucking up the pigs, planting vegetables, raking hay, very ephemeral, process-oriented things. Then I'd sneak off into the attic to read. I don't think I went to an art gallery until I was about sixteen...
...CP: I think so. I first went to London when I was 15 or 16 with my art teacher. I went around all the galleries and thought "Wow, this is amazing." It just blew me away and I decided to become an artist. I wanted to exhibit at the Tate...which I have now done. It's just fantastic to have that idea when you're 15. But it seems like an almost useless thing to do, it would seem to be just for people to look at, and be great treats for people's imaginations. But I think...
...CP: I think my blown-up garden shed was one of my favorites. Also, a piece I did in collaboration with the actress Tilda Swinton called The Maybe, which I really enjoyed. It was very unique because you are working someone else, having someone who was alive, actually part of the show, who's there as a presence. She is also a pretty famous actress. She became part of a reliquary, she became the only living thing in it. Surrounded by all these relics of dead people, you suddenly became very aware of your own mortality. Everybody was dead, except...