"Since shortly after I began making videos in 2000, it has been a kind of criteria of my work that it should be made using mechanical means as well as with the computer, if the idea required it. Ever since chucking a tomato at a window behind which a camera was rolling, I have believed in the superiority of using practical physical solutions to problems before looking to the computer. The results are usually more realistic, as real-life is unpredictable and non-uniform, something computers still find very difficult if not impossible to emulate. But this is not the only reason why I prefer to work mechanically as well as digitally; If I allow myself freedom of thought I discover diverse working methods using all sorts of new materials and practicing and learning a wider range of skills.

A video usually begins with quite a clear idea, either as an image or a method, for example in Let's Trance (2007) I had an idea of what I wanted the image to look like, while for Mirror I knew I wanted to create a performance that appeared to be incidental but was actually learnt by heart. I then start to work out strategies for creating the work. They are sometimes quite obvious, sometimes they need a lot of thinking about before I find out the best method to do it. Many of my videos have required me to build special props and sets; the video The Woman in the Stream (2009) began with a clear idea for the image, so I had to design and build an apparatus using mirrors and water to distort the image in exactly the way I wanted to."