There are some spiritual symbols in your work but you’re taking a new direction. Where are you headed?

As of late, I have been more privy to the B.S. our society promotes as normal, like how every individual requires a cell phone, even though their manufacturing involves the mining of the Coltan mineral, which in doing so perpetuates a deadly war in the Congo, which to me, looks far too much like the face of slavery. I am angered by the ongoing imperialism and colonialism experienced daily by the displaced and the oppressed—which includes the planet itself. People have been pointing it out since the beginning of industrialization. These things are not new, but they are now at a tipping point and have become issues that everyone needs to wake up to. I could take mushrooms and make art in a beautiful bubble of psychedelia, but the mushrooms would just tell me the earth is hurting and I’d be back at zero... so I guess this is the new direction (not to say mushrooms are a write-off) [Laughs].