Stephen Gill

I never saw fish, ever. I mean, we see what we want to see, and I was seeing stalactites, I was seeing gems.  I saw the back of someone’s neck or volcanoes, volcanic lava. I mean I really saw that. I didn’t even have to work that hard to project it, you know? It was a cityscape at night from a high place. It couldn’t be anything else. I couldn’t believe it. There were times when I was shaking. But of course there are times where you wonder how much you’re pushing and projecting and how much is being emitted. I think it’s really interesting how we kind of see, to some extent, what we want to see.

You make it sound simple – it must have been a difficult to work inside of a fish?

The original idea came at least three years before I started. It was bubbling. I was so sure that there would be this other world, that you could explore the inside of a fish. I  imagined that I was planning a space trip. I always thought of it like a voyage or expedition – ‘one day, I’m going to go on a trip inside…