I built this whole thing in my head. My instructors at Burton weren’t happy about it at all, because they wanted me to make an animal. The course guidelines are very clear: something organic is best, something poetic or cinematic, something you can relate to, something that runs and hides. For most people that’s a deer or a tortoise. One girl had a chameleon, there was a kid from Russia who had some sort of mythical goblin that blended into the snow. I had a submarine. I told them I’d watched Das Boot over and over again, that I loved it, that it was my iconic image of evasion. They weren’t happy, but the class brief also said it should be the first thing you think of when they set you the task and this was what came into my head, and that was true and I wasn’t budging. In the end, I think they felt they had to let me try and fail. Which I didn’t.