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when I was 22 I was like a 14 year old

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and I was somewhat just doing

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what my mother said to me

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what I should do

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I was more a dreamer

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I was... I did not really know what to do

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on this 22nd birthday I went with my mother

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through Hamburg, through town, and she asked me

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"what do you want for birthday present"

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and I thought a little bit and then I said

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"I want some paper and some pencil or pastels

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and I want to start doing painting/drawings"

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and my mother looked at me and said

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"why you want to do drawings?

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You were never interesting in doing art."

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even at that moment we didn't say 'art'

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"you were never interested in drawing."

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and we have not so much money

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and it costs a lot of money, this big papers

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and but then she bought this and from that day on,

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I started to paint, to draw,
and to make sculptures.

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(noise of rushing water)

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(off screen)
"when did you find out that images

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play an important role in your life?"

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when I fell into a lake
when I was six years old

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and I fell to the bottom and I saw

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probably the most beautiful world
I've ever seen

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and it was colorful, and there was light,

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and these plants were moving

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I mean I see it regularly,
I see it constantly almost in my mind,

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in my mind's eye

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