“I picked up brushes for the first time in many years. Simply reproducing the lines, crosses and circles that everyone in the world uses to underline their choices was not enough: I saw the possibility of inventing a new kind of object by marrying, organically and not arbitrarily, painting and the recorded image.

When I started painting the contacts it was all brush strokes and jubilation. The jubilation of painting recalled the celebration of making the picture. For me, making a picture was a celebration, was physical, and gave me a super charge.”