Knowledge in the world that was not the same as the linear, logic of the law. i think it s partly as a. every child having to find a defence against the power of parents and for me, it was through becoming an artist. i only realised this years and years and months of therapy later to understand what that connection was, but i m sure it s there. what is the connection because obviously, you went on to become an artist and politics became a very central theme of your work, is that how you married the two influences? it is. i think it is and the larger question about my parents about what is the nature of the society and what is the nature of justice. they are questions that interest me enormously. but i suppose as a young child, you have to, not as a young child but as an adolescent, you have to find a route to find my own voice. and if it was going to be in the terms of law and legal thinking, i was on a hiding to nothing. ....