Everywhere is both local and also global. It’s that kind of world. We’re hooked up in a way we were not hooked up previously. The world has changed. Now, we all have an individual neighborhood and locale, but we are also bombarded by information from every other neighborhood and locale in the world. We’re connected in a different way. I wanted to deal with what is basically my neighborhood, the area which I was born in, and treat it exactly the same as other people’s neighborhoods. Yes, the neighborhood I grew up in is still a particularly distressed neighborhood, but there’s one in every town in every country, I’m sure. There is a wrong side of the tracks.

Don’t know why I’m so fascinated with the concept of local recently.