Although he had little formal training, Sarkin had always been artistically inclined, with a slightly off-beat flair for the visual. On the phone I would do doodles that were nicer than your average doodles, and would save them. And I always put more thought into where things would go in my house, visually, than it seems other people did. That artistic bent mushroomed after his stroke. Let's say you have an idea.
Most people have a barrier to an idea.
There's a filter. That filter's been removed for me. I see things. Let's say you see a pattern in a cloud that looks like a whale. If I'm walking down the street, and I see a cloud that looks like a whale, I go back to my studio and make a drawing of the cloud that looks like a whale, I make a sculpture of the cloud that looks like a whale.