 I'm Christophe Wickman, and I'm an artist in Bushwick, and I'm in a show raw-cooked at the Brooklyn Museum. I guess it's really hard to say what attracts me to a shape. I like forms that have a lot of cultural baggage, but can also be read as just a formal object in terms of like a sphere, but also has another side to it, something with all sorts of language attached to it. The Pilates Ball, it has a sort of a quasi-spiritual side to it. It sort of says something about a trend, I think, with like self-improvement and exercise and fitness, and then it's also just a big purple ball. I guess for me to be attracted to a shape or a form or a specific object, there has to be that sort of duality. They're cast in aqua resin, which is like a plaster type of material, but it has some acrylic binder and acrylic solids, so it's more plastic-y. It's somewhere in between like a resin and a polyester resin and a plaster or hydro-cal, and supposedly non-toxic. All the pieces sort of start with an object that I see. It's usually something that already exists in the world, and then it's a process of, how can I make that better, or how can I make it worthwhile to transform? The trick is to sort of find things that can be sort of transformed in a way.