"I first came across this material, these crystal glass drops, in a flea market. I bought what was there and took them to my studio. At the time, I was working on wall sculptures, which I later called Night Islands, consisting of different materials. There is a nature element in these works. In one there are slates that have slightly violet tones and in the other the slates are black. In the first Night Islands work, I used about 20 of the drops. It’s often only afterwards that I start thinking about the motivation behind my work, and I think these drops represent the dew on the grass and on the earth in the early morning. The violet one has a gold leaf spiral, which represents the sun rise. Much later, in the 1990s, I was down in Marseille, where I used to go frequently for a certain project. I went into a shop there, which I believe was selling lamps and lights, and there I saw exactly the same drops. I bought a lot of them that day. Then the drops became an independent work, very different in nature from those sculptural works from 1979. I started putting them up in a vertical line on a wall and they’re simply titled according to the number of drops that are on the wall, for example 12 Drops, 21 Drops and so on. They can be placed with different distances between them, so if you have short distances it’s a faster line, and with long distances it’s a slow line. Now, they have no external referent whatsoever: they’re simply drops and the number of drops is both the material and its content."