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Yes, I'm sweating right now.

This entire room is made of iron sheet.

And because this room doesn't have a window, Mika's created sort of a window on the ceiling made from... Transparent sheets, I think.

On my left-hand side are sketches and the bucket of eggshells.

I can see some of the eggshells which you've already prepared are painted pink, purple, yellow, red, all sorts of colors.

Mika's using these palettes to create his latest artworks, a series of mosaics called Trying to Blossom, in which he's putting himself at the centre of his works.

Do you have any reasons for choosing that particular theme?

You scribbled some notes here, trying to blossom distribution plan one.

The self-education and research overlooking my younger self, I can believe you'll watch this flourish.

I love that.

And you're sketching in chalk.

As I can see, you've pinned 11 testers on the wall.

So like the third one here, I can see a sketch where there are four people sitting on the floor and there are two stools.

One of them is toppled over and there's also a candle lit in the room.

Oh, so the candle features in a lot of the tester pieces that you have on the wall here.

And definitely a big part of your studio is the eggshell collection.

So right in front of us, we have a bucket full of eggshells.

The egg shells, when you get them, are they sometimes full of leftover egg yolk and egg white?

Are they wet?

Because the ones you have here look pretty clean and not smelly.