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There are two thinkers, Italian thinkers, that I admire greatly - Antonio Gramsci, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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I was invited to series of exhibitions in Italy last year. And I wanted to make an homage to both men.

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In the world of culture today, I miss Gramsci and I miss Pasolini.

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I miss Gramsci because he was one of the first thinkers who really believed in power of culture to affect life,

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To affect social life, to affect political life.

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And Pasolini was an artist like no other.

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He was a thinker, a filmmaker, a poet, a writer, a critic. He was writing and working in all directions.

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And I miss today Gramsci and Pasolini.

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What brought me to this piece in particular was, in one of Pasolini's writings,

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He says that culture is a prison.

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And we intellectuals have to get out of that prison.

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Enough of me speaking to you and you speaking to me,

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Me applauding to you and you applauding to me. Let's get out. Let's reach a larger audience.

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And I realized that this could have been my motto for many, many years.

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And for the last 25 years, I have always been looking for different ways of communication.

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And each work employs a different strategy of communication, in order to reach a larger public.

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In order to make sense.