You’ve mentioned in the past that you want your artwork to inspire emotional states in people. What emotional states are you hoping to create in the people who carry these bags?

One of the things I really enjoyed in working with Louis Vuitton on these bags is that both of us have this great desire to use craft, materials and detail to communicate to the public, to the owner of the bag, to the viewer of the bag, what we really care about. We don’t just care about being able to make a stitch perfect: we’re communicating to the viewer and to the owner of the bag that we care about them. I care about the viewer, not detail for detail’s sake. So I hope somebody who sees the bag or acquires the bag can emotionally feel this connectivity, can feel a sense of union. And not just with the artist of that bag. If they happen to have the Van Gogh bag, [that connection] is not just with Van Gogh. Van Gogh loved Gauguin and loved the Dutch Old Masters and loved Rubens. There’s all of this interconnectivity.