Can you tell us a bit about the story and whether there was something about the subject that felt better suited to images than words?
 
This work is about nostalgia. Nostalgia accompanies us throughout our lives, bringing us comfort, joy or sadness, or all of the above at the same time. Everything we carry in our heads or in our pockets is a trigger for nostalgia, and the type I’m talking about, Stockholm Nostalgia, has the ability to keep us prisoners of our memories from time to time.
 
In terms of choosing to use images, actually, I always work this way – combining drawings and text – simply because I think they complement each other. I also write – books, I mean – and when I do, I use only words.
 

Was there a moment in the process when the story changed direction because of something you drew – or tried to draw?
 
No, since they're both connected, they work together and simultaneously.
 

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How does your approach to storytelling change – if it does – when you draw?
 
I try to use words like images, and drawings like words. I hope that makes sense. Before words were written, they were drawn and before they were drawn, they were seen. That’s why I try to use words like images, and drawings like words.
 

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How do you decide what to show visually and what to leave to the text or dialogue?
 
I never really decide – I just follow.
 

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Are there specific authors, visual influences or stylistic references that have inspired and/or influenced your work? How and why?
 
Everything influences what I do. And by everything, I really mean everything: the morning light, the coffee cup I use, the book I'm reading, the movies I watch, seeing my lover and my friends, talking to cats and dogs and birds and trees. Some influences stay; others fade away. 

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Here are a few that stayed, for no particular reason: 
 

• Malevich and Suprematism

• some of Wim Wenders’ films

• Bret Easton Ellis – his first and his last books

• Electric by Chad Taylor

• Ettore Sottsass and his book Regard nomade

• Moïse and the world of reason by Tennessee Williams

• Alice: The girl from earth by Kir Bulychev

• Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas

• the architecture of Coop Himmelb(l)au

• Diabolik, the Italian comic series

• the photographs of Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans.