On his inspirations:
“I first noticed people as possible things to draw when standing at railway stations and seeing rows of people on the opposite platform. Seen flattened out and from a distance I could imagine a way to draw them. I see echoes of this flattening out of people into lists or friezes in ancient Assyrian stone panels and Egyptian tomb paintings. Roman and Greek carved and painted friezes also use this trick. Many individual people seen flat-on create a pattern and a movement and a kind of story. A frieze highlights the sameness of people but also their differences. An image becomes a process, even a place, as you move yourself around the same space that the figures inhabit.”
