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Extracts from a conversation with Alex Thornton:

“Yesterday I sat in the park and watched a man throw a stick for his dog. The guy’s hair was nearly white, if you want to take that as an indication of age. I noticed the pair again five minutes or so later. The guy was stood beneath a tree pulling down an entire branch. He tore it off, gave it a good beating with his boots and then started to pound it on an iron fence. He smashed it several times until the size was deemed about right for his dog and tossed the stick a few yards over an iron fence onto the bowling green. The dog took one look and wandered off lacking any noticeable conviction. With each added personality I enjoy a growing number of obscure differences and inevitable connections. I no longer think of drawing through the night as being strange. This last spring one of my main outputs was a book full of stick- figure drawings, and one week last month I spent my entire schedule ‘exploring globes’. I can turn up on Monday morning and fully expect to be facing the ‘upper’ rear end of a female life model. Since cave drawings were conceived, creative thinking has shaped lives. Today, in the appropriate circles painters may hold the standard in the evolution of a refined discipline. Nearly every day for the last four years and two months I have seen pictures taken in Iraq. Recently I started to question whether or not I had already crossed the point at which I could have been a zookeeper.”