People often ask me why I make such large figure sculptures. To help answer this question, I would like to tell you a story from my childhood: When I was 6 years old, I used to sit on my father's knee and he would tell me stories about a big friendly giant who lived in the sky. The important thing about this friendly giant was that he did good things for people. In his stories, my father and I often went up to visit with this friendly giant who lived in the sky and we learned many things about life from him. I am sure that these wonderful stories that my father told to me at such a young age had an important influence on the symbols that I now choose to create in my later life as an artist. If you, the reader, are one of these people who likes to analyze things from a psychological perspective, you might even say that I am trying to bring this friendly giant downs to earth ? -to get closer to him or her- or even to find this friendly giant inside myself.