I think the idea of being interested in cultural studies or anthropology is very alinear, because the idea of culture is, it’s very historical on one hand, but it’s very present and very dynamic and always changing on the other hand. When you have culture, history is actually always changing, so there’s no set history. There’s historiography, which are histories from different points of view, so this is always becoming richer and richer. The ability to pull from the past, or give back to the past—-and add a level or add richness—-is there, and that way culture becomes something where you can bend, or fold time. So within a cultural practice of going to the shrine and praying to a certain god, there’s all this rich history to that, and there’s also personal experience now. I think it’s very much about time, or time and space, or the past coming into the present. —-M.L.C.