when I was 22 I was like a 14 year old
and I was somewhat just doing
what my mother said to me
what I should do
I was more a dreamer
I was (pause) I did not really know what to do
on this 22nd birthday I went with my mother
through town and she asked me
"what do you want for birthday present"
and I thought a little bit and then I said
"I want some paper and some pencil or pastels
and I want to doing painting/drawings"
and my mother looked at me and said
"why you want to do drawings?
You were never interesting in doing art."
even at that moment we didn't say 'art'
you were never interested in drawing
and we have not so much money
and it costs a lot of money this big papers
and but then she bought this and from that
day on I started to paint, to draw, and
to make sculptures
(noise of rushing water)
(off screen) "