"Architecture had a lot of wonderful things, like being rooted into the ground. I realized that choosing a building or any kind of built structure immediately gave me a righteousness of place. Architecture rooted the work in the place and had an amazing other quality, which is that, particularly with public buildings, everybody knows them; they belong to everybody in the city. Architects also have to worry about the fact that we are human beings of a particular size and we walk on our feet, so there’s issues of ergonomics and scale that are related to the human body. I first started with architecture because it had all these qualities, which I could work up in a sculptural and conceptual language. There was another important factor, which is that at the time I had many friends that were mostly documentary photographers. Photography was, of course, a way to get a lot of images out of South Africa during apartheid so these were also politically active people. I became very enthralled with the book by David Goldblatt called South Africa: The Structure of Things Then, 1998. The interesting thing about Goldblatt’s structures is that he photographed mostly Africans and buildings pertaining to the Afrikaans people. What interested me was that by taking a photograph of buildings, he could tell me about the people and their politics. It had a huge influence on me because it allowed me to understand that you could read things into buildings. "