My desire to go to places, live there and grapple with these places is an attempt to understand situations which are not part of my born reality. I find a lot of inspiration in that. I never have been comfortable working in a studio situation day by day — in a vacuum. There’s not enough information or questioning going on there. The distillation of ideas must be a rich, complicated search about locating the limitations as a foreigner, as a tourist. The kind of narratives that are generated while working outside your known elements . . . I prefer these journeys to using the yellow pages…