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It can be measured according to certain conventional standards, though it seems evident that it still harbours spectacular secrets in this field, but this doesn’t prevent it also from constantly disappearing, ungraspable, unbounded, indefinite.It can lead to reflection, emotion, loss, possession, accounting, poetry; it’s weighty, very weighty, and ethereal, very ethereal.At each instant this instant replaces the previous instant and maybe that’s all that happens.How much influence can a bad climate or a time change have on your daily work?Time changes directly influence my body and, therefore, what I do. I believe they change my biorhythms and make me feel a bit out of context with myself. I like the climate to change; I like good climates and bad climates, but for them to change.The dynamic unfolding of urban life, as also occurs with truth or with aesthetic paradigms, is becoming faster and more unpredictable every day. On the other hand, nostalgia is also very powerful, accompanied by conservation, consumption and compulsive research into genealogies and things of the past. Where would you situate yourself at this brink?It’s been evident since Heraclites that nothing is static, that everything is in a permanent state of change. That the valueof the aesthetic has penetrated all personal and social realms and is establishing new rules of conduct is another matter. Trans-aesthetic capitalism as Lipovetsky calls it functions by commercially exploiting our emotions, and this is true of present and past codes. The past is a false companion; it’s rather like an invisible friend, mostly annoying. Nostalgia is a value related to the past, but experienced in the presence. But in truth I don’t regard myself as very inclined to nostalgia.Do you collect anything?I’ve been collecting balls for playing with from the various places I travel to for a few years. I bought a ball for playing Basque pelota in Vitoria, a cricket ball in London, a polo ball in Buenos Aires, a baseball ball in Chicago, and an ice hockey ball in Lisbon... And so on. We play with them later.Are you concerned with building a personal library?Our library is undoubtedly progressively expanding, changing and vanishing in accordance with our interests.In different ways your works accord considerable significance to the idea of irremediable transformations that perhaps will lead to a good, but at the same time one senses a resistance to the objective and determining value. This, in turn, makes it possible to understand those promising changes31 | EUGENIO AMPUDIA. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO NO ONE YET31 | EUGENIO AMPUDIA. THE FUTURE BELONGS TO NO ONE YET