In your own personal terms, did you feel you were able to integrate some of the elements of this play and this virtuosic facility?

Yes, true.

Into your own art?

Yes, I have been, I suppose. At least in various things, I have been able to do that, and in fact, even in the way I work, I sit and scribble and overdo things, overlay things, then change then use paper cuts. Sometimes when I do a thing for designing a children’s book, that thing, the playfulness that comes into it, comes and affects the work. So, there is a kind of useful interchange, but of course how it comes and how effective it is, is for other people to say. I don’t really sort of try to find out where it happens or it doesn’t.

If I use a phrase like ‘it released you’, that implies that previously you would have been blocked.

Well maybe, I don’t know. The whole question is the normal system is that if you are thinking in terms of conforming to a certain kind of a style, you are being blocked, and that is what I try to cut across.