Rinus van de Velde, Antwerp, November 2012: Why Conrad is my best friend? Because he's everything I am not. And since I'm so boring and normal, he's a thousand things. I negotiate my whole identity with his. You could say that, through him, I become the sculptor of my artistic self. Even now that he's gone, I can feel him standing somewhere behind me.

2012

And now I realized I am a thing

2017

You seem unrelated to the world of apppearances. I told him. After a brief moment of silence he replied: "On Sundays I may not allow myself to be seen on the streets, for I have no Sunday clothes. In my steady and thrifty life I am like a field mouse

2016