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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.