I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

