As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
When you do men's wear, it's less about thinking outside the box than about pushing the walls of the box outward. Men want to be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.