of . You had beaches , but nobody is surfing . It ’ s too cold ! You come out of Australia and it ’ s 115 degrees and you hardly wore clothes and you always stood on a board on water . Coming back here I thought I ’ d use it as a foreign idea in Toronto . At the time Marshall McLuhan was at his peak so things were more language-based and technology and print , so I started proposing surfing shacks and using the surf board as a means of communication . Surfer Rick is a series of models . I made that vehicle . I think it ’ s a model of a Dodge van cutting two and joining them together , and rebashing it into a kind of hot rod motorbike . The first one was Surfer Rick . There ’ s Boater Rick , Outer Rick . Why Rick ? Rickshaw !
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The artist I admire is ... Gordon Matta-Clark who cut a house in half called Splitting .
I listen to ... Bob Dylan both as music and in a deeper way , and J . J . Cale .
I drive a ... Toyota Matrix , my second one .
I would like to drive a ... ( laughing ) Ferrari but I need a truck . I like my Ford Transit but I ’ ve drilled a lot of holes in it and they won ’ t let me drive it . I drove it for a day .
Inside my car trunk you ’ ll find a ... Box of Beetle magazines and three animal cages and some wine bottles .
My secret weapon is ... Humour .
I like going regularly to ... New York three times a year . I always have my birthday there . I like to get older in New York . I can say , “ I ’ m now 66 in New York instead of I ’ m 66 in Toronto .” It ’ s been a tradition for a long time , and it just feels better .
To be an artist you need ... Elephant skin or a turtle shell .
My next inspiration is ... Hoping for another one . I don ’ t really work in that term but a Jacuzzi water fountain . Think of a big boulder or monument and a Jacuzzi .
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