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MATHEW RITCHIE: Modern art is a gift.

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Take it or leave it, you know.

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It's like nobody's forcing it down your [br]throat.

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All anyone is trying to do is try out some[br]new ideas,

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something different, something, you know..

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just ringing the changes a little while.

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And I think there's something [br]enormously ambitious

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about that idea, that we're all trying [br]to advance

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or at least question what's going on,

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and I just think that's great.

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Drawing is very, very central to the way [br]that I work

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because it can be blown up, taken apart,

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given to another person to execute,

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put into a computer,

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redrawn as if the computer had thought of [br]your drawing

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in the first place,

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shrunk back down to a tiny sketch,

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turned into a digital game.

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You can just keep on pushing it.

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It's like this infinite machine,

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which is very hard to do with almost [br]anything else.

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Like even with a painting--

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a painting becomes a very static, fixed [br]thing,

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but a drawing, you can make it three-[br]dimensional,

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you can make it flat, you can turn it into[br]a sphere.

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You can just keep pushing it and pushing [br]it and pushing it,

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because all it is, is information.

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It's just a bunch of marks.