Woody: “Art of Memory was a much more deliberate effort to deal with this concept of the past's present and also very distant voice. But the true direct connection in Art of Memory, in the work of mine, to the past was the newsreels which I watched as a child from the Goebbels propaganda machines in Bohemia when I grew up. We would go twice a week to watch the newsreels. And then I stumble over these newsreels … and I said that it is maybe time to pay a tribute to what I denied always in my work, which is the content, the actual experience. And I stopped being abstract, being material only, and I said, ok let me just make the epos, a large canvas, so to speak. And the canvas of course, the background, was New Mexico landscape, because it is a very natural large canvas. You can't really find a bigger one.”