I tried getting into the university three times after I finished electronics high school in 1986. The first two times they told me I had no talent. After my exams I decided to enter the industrial design program because this was still during the Bolshevik period and if I wanted to make sculptures, I didn’t want to be under the pressure of the communists’ sculpting requirements, which were dominant at that time in the university. I realized that if I studied industrial design there was no way anyone would tell me, “For the next half year you will design a vacuum cleaner in a Stalinist way.”