Authenticity is a term frequently invoked but rarely defined. Within your own practice, what constitutes authenticity, and how do you safeguard it against the pressures of repetition, recognition, and commercial expectation?
The authenticity I'm referring to relates to an artist's work. When you look at the art of renowned artists, it's immediately recognizable; they have their own distinctive style. This is increasingly disappearing; there's copying and imitation, and authenticity is lost. If I'm inspired by an artist and take up their ideas, then I have to develop them further and add something uniquely my own. I have to develop the ideas further, not simply adopt them—that's not an achievement.

What does your art want to say to the viewer?

I believe it is not possible to evade a linear process. To me, the consumer world is not POP as it is in Pop art, but a linear process that we are exposed to every day, and that leads to the most impossible.

(Most surreal) everyday situations. Basically, I don't want to dictate what the viewer must think, each of my works of art speaks for itself and the viewer should let his imagination run free when looking at my works of art. Regardless of my initial intention for a painting, my experience is that everyone sees things differently.