This first series of bags features paintings from your recent ‘Gazing Ball’ series of paintings, in which you created large-scale reproductions of works by the Old Masters and displayed them with a mirrored globe — a ‘gazing ball’. Why did that series see

What the ‘Gazing Ball’ series of paintings is really about is communicating how when you give it up to something else, when you find something of greater interest outside yourself, you’re able to achieve transcendence and have a life with greater breadth to it. I chose artists for these bags who were each giving it up to someone else. They were saying, ‘This artist I find more interesting than what I am doing,’ and ‘This artist also found somebody else.’ These artists are making reference to other artists, and they find something outside themselves that’s greater than themselves. It’s a form of love, and we all practise this every day in our life. If we want to achieve transcendence, we are able to look at even the simplest thing outside ourselves, or the most complex, and find awe and wonderment in that. And our parameters expand.