I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.