Having watched my European  lecture on Alberto Giacometti, what do you think about the relationship between an artist’s personal experience and their work and is this culturally determined? Was this artist making a socio political statement with these sculptures or are these works drawn from a deep rooted trauma derived from the culture he was raised in? How do traumatic experiences affect an artist’s understanding of the world? What other artists draw from personal experience, be it painful or otherwise, to create their artworks?