"I made a painting called The Intoxication of Freedom which showed a pile of gold coins and each coin had some sort of drawing on it: some grapes, a house, a dollar sign, a mystical sign, the eye on the pyramid - and at the top a rat holding the world in his hand. And this was just the idea that once you'd achieved all these steps of understanding you could hope to hold the world in your hand and you would be sheltered under a great gold coin." M.Collings, Artscribe, Dec. 1985-Jan.1986, p.43