What is your line of work?

Creative Director and Principle of Ansel Design Studio, New York.

If you were a work of art, which one would you choose?

I would like to be in any of Matisse’s paintings or any of his “drawing with scissors” later works. But I would especially choose the Matisse painting called The Red Studio (1911). This is a poem of a painting that refers to itself. And I wouldn’t mind turning into one of Matisse’s vermillion goldfish.

What is your earliest memory of art?

Trying to draw and copy the Sunday funnies in the newspapers my father brought home when I was very young. “Blondie,” “Brenda Starr” and “Dick Tracy” were some of my favorites.

Which museum or foundation would you like to be locked in one night?

Whenever it is completed … I would really like to be locked in the amazing Zaha Hadid Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi for one night. Don’t you just love saying those names together? Zaha Hadid … Abu Dhabi. Until then you can lock me in the Met.