Why the glasses above the wave? I guess, to suggest the immense, unfathomable intelligence of the world’s oceans. But I first started making sketches of glasses back in about 1985 when I was studying in Milan. At that time, a common scene on Milan’s streets was for immigrants to spread a white cloth onto the pavement and arrange a series of sunglasses that they would sell to passers-by. I did several still-life paintings based on those scenes, but then I thought that it would be good to put them into flight.