In Beijing, I was constantly seeing contrasts, old buildings next to new, authentic next to simulation. Out of the arrangements of bricks and workers with picks and shovels, white cubes emerged, whole new districts dedicated to art production. I felt a sense of spontaneity; it required a certain special attitude just to navigate the streets. It was amazing that despite the density of traffic and pedestrians, despite the apparent chaos, a certain order emerged. If my work was influenced by the experience, it was by the sense of co-existent layers. By this I mean the extreme contrast of different worlds next to each other.

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