Florence is one of the most beautiful cities, with the most beautiful light.
The light is always moving,
since nine o'clock in the morning
until the night.
Sun is always the best light.
You have this bright sunny morning,
and then it starts to dim down
into this dusky, soft light.
I've been really, really interested in light,
from several different angles and perspectives
and what it does to people.
...that we're facing west, into the city,
so you get this lovely golden light
at the end of the day.
This is a beautiful house.
It's on the hills above Florence.
You can see the Duomo from the gardens.
You have all of medieval Italy mapped out psychologically in front of you.
I love Florence.
It's one of the more beautiful towns in the world.
For an architect, especially, it's an amazing place.
So it's very inspirational.
It's even too much!
We came with a completely blank canvas,
then got very quickly into just being inspired
by the surroundings.
That white page, blank canvas, blank space
can be intimidating to any creative person.
The potential of what I could do in this couple of rooms here was exciting.
I'd get locked in on a palette, and then
just let it go.
We're really curious looking at the context,
and then trying to create something.
And the fun thing is that we
never know where it takes us.
If I have to say what inspires me the most,
it's the female body.
The female body, for me, is the perfect architecture.
It represents so many things:
the mother, the creator,
also it's a self portrait.
The nude becomes the abstract form
that you use, like a canvas that
you can put your palette on.
You sculpt it with light,
depending on how you move it.
The light defines it.
It's like a three-dimensional sculpture.
I'm really inspired by other artists.
Visual artists, a painter, a photographer.
And very often there is a text, or a book
behind every project.
I'm really fascinated by the way that
lyrics, and music work together.
I think about that quite a lot,
when I'm trying to make
the words of my work.
The question of how you take
poetry off the page.
How you put poetry in the streets.
There's a relationship to tradition
of poetic graffiti.
At the moment there's a lot of inspiration
coming from observation of people.
How someone reacts in a certain situation.
For this movie we are making,
it's a 3-D, but a very bad 3-D because
it's made by our eyes.
A two-camera has two eyes.
So they look like a strange mutant.
The light piece in the end will be
like three meters high and three meters wide.
It's like a really light structure.
It's made from like thin ash wood.
I think we'll probably find the position
in the garden of the main house,
looking over the cityscape.
Our process takes six to eight months.
So, it was quite interesting to
compress that down.
It was quite nice because,
you kind of have a deadline
every five minutes.
I think when you're absorbed in something,
and you're being creative,
there is no sense of time, and space.
It was almost like being in this
weird time capsule, where time was suspended.
It challenges you to just go for
decisions, very early on, and do it.
Working with other artists, for me is
a beautiful thing.
'Cause if there is one feeling that
I really cannot understand in human beings
that is envy.
The more I'm surrounded by artists,
and the more I see beautiful works,
I like to say "Bravo!" I like to clap,
because they give me energy.
Just knowing that there is other artists
working beside my room is really exciting
because while we are working here
we can go and watch, not just
what they are doing, but how.
I'm very curious about the people here,
how they use time, and space.
Just interacting with some of
the other artists here has been good,
and to take a break from what I'm doing,
look at what they're doing.
There was quite a lot of empathy
between some of the artists,
and connections in what they were making.
I feel like I'm leaving with more energy
than I came with.
Everyone seemed very happy to be
exporting their creativity and their process.
It's important sometimes to get into that
group spirit.
The collaboration with all the artists
has been really inspiring.
The way we all manage to fuse together
without egos or anything,
just pure communication.
It's rare.
It just keeps life so much more interesting
if you're exposed to other people's opinions.