I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
“I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.”
“For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.”