For as long as I’ve known myself, social issues have been more important to me than anything else. In Recife the shantytowns were my first truth. Long before I felt “art,” I felt the profound beauty of struggle.
“We seem to be in the trough of a wave; there’s a huge wall rushing towards us with a white crest, and I just hope that we can ride to the top of it and maybe see something — a larger, more interesting world — on the other side. On the other hand, we may be swamped. We’re living in very interesting times but, at the same time, deeply uncertain ones.”
J. G. Ballard