When I arrived back in Europe in 1980, after my years of chasing the American dream, some of my positions towards life seemed rather bleak. Looking back, this was rather early but I did feel – and consequently wanted to express it in my work – that the times of idealism, which so much marked the Seventies, seemed to come to an end.

As it turned out the change that was to come was much worse then I could ever imagine at that time.