MATHEW RITCHIE: Modern art is a gift.
Take it or leave it, you know.
It's like nobody's forcing it down your throat.
All anyone is trying to do is try out some new ideas,
something different, something, you know..
just ringing the changes a little while.
And I think there's something enormously ambitious
about that idea, that we're all trying to advance
or at least question what's going on,
and I just think that's great.
Drawing is very, very central to the way that I work
because it can be blown up, taken apart,
given to another person to execute,
put into a computer,
redrawn as if the computer had thought of your drawing
in the first place,
shrunk back down to a tiny sketch,
turned into a digital game.
You can just keep on pushing it.
It's like this infinite machine,
which is very hard to do with almost anything else.
Like even with a painting--
a painting becomes a very static, fixed thing,
but a drawing, you can make it three- dimensional,
you can make it flat, you can turn it into a sphere.
You can just keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it,
because all it is, is information.
It's just a bunch of marks.