As for new media, I learned mainly from books and struggled through a self-taught filmmaking and animating course from 16mm film to digital programs. I have accepted the collaboration of technical experts to speed up the process.

Do you expect that people who come to see your work understand that studio assistants have contributed to it? Would knowing this change the audience's opinion of the work?

Actually, I’ve experienced the opposite. When I began showing my reinforced resin “Vectors,” which were almost always modeled, molded, cast, and assembled by me, people asked what fabricators I had hired. Even when I was showing my early 16mm animated films in the early 90s—years before there was any interest in this medium in the art world—a few people asked me what computer program I was using, or what animator team I had hired to create such hand-made and delicate effect. In fact, each film was the result of thousands of my individual pen-and-ink drawings and careful planning.