In the lineage of a creative life, there is often a single point of departure that defines the horizon. For me, that moment arrived over twenty years ago with my fourth masterpiece. It was a physical interrogation of Jacques Brel’s 1959 recording of “Ne me quitte pas,” rendered in marble. It represented a seismic shift…
In my teachings and during our retreats, I often speak of the “architecture of the self.” This is not a metaphor I chose lightly. It is a philosophy I learned with my own hands while working on the great monuments of the English Renaissance—buildings designed by the masters Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren. The…
As a child in the aftermath of the Second World War, my world was defined by the jagged geometry of the City’s bomb sites. To most, these were merely ruins; to me, they were my first playgrounds. I climbed through the exposed foundations and scorched timbers of a London that had stood since the Great…
They say you are what you eat—and as we learn more about the gut microbiome, we’re finding out that’s literally true. But we are also the sum of everything we experience. I’m from London or New York; my parents are from India or Hungary. I’m male, female, or non-binary. I listen to this, I eat…