"I know that I don't want to live the life of an efficiency-obsessed Millennial technocrat who never sleeps, never cries; who manages their life through an assisted-living network of IPhone apps. I want to create a work-and thus: a life-that creates room for suffering and transcendence; but I also know that THE work-the work which I feel the immanence of-cannot be wished into existence; I know that I must submerge myself utterly in the water of art for it to be realized."