When you have to wait?

You come over as a bit scratchy in your earlier work - in "hello", also in "anger" and in "truth" ...they are irritating and irritated. I found some sarcasm in the AN interviews; but it seems to me that only your early work shows that side of you.

I get worried sometimes because I am quite sarcastic, but people who see my work - Americans - don't have a great sense of irony or sarcasm. One of my big fears is being misunderstood. Using my humour people didn't get what I meant, and it is very important for me that people get what I have to say - on some level anyway. So, I have responded to that.

anger	Truth Glass

What I like about this is that you have deepened the feeling, feeling is often covered up by sarcasm.

I am playing with language and finding my expression that way. My work goes off into different avenues; you can't box my work. I may settle down, to a particular thing that clicks but I haven't found a language that clicks yet.

Have you ever thought that it is lonely sitting in front of the computer looking at your work? Communication cannot be achieved.

It's the internet isolating itself. It's one of those bizarre things. You are in this global environment and at the end of the day, it's just you and your machine. The work I do reflects that, in my hermit existence, me and my machine. There is that loneliness.

When I saw "light from the machine", one of your pieces - I wondered if you also hated the computer and felt terrorised by it?

It rules my life. The battle I have at the moment, there is an unspoken law that your real life should not be in the art. That it must have to do with the technology and must play with the capability of technology. Then you sit in front of the computer and you are expected to transform. You have a dual personality, schizophrenia going on.

In my case, and in the case I think of most female artists, the real life and the computer life is a drag. Dragged one way then the other. I have this machine, my creative portal into the world and I have my family and my home. The tension between them - the light of the machine is coming in. It is a love-hate relationship.

I am working on the technical side, on clarity and precision. It's a tool to let me express what I want, the technical side is not the be all and end all. My work is not about the machine.