American set designers tend not to like the term 'scenography," but it's a much better word for what I do than 'set design." When I design, my aim is to discover and articulate a suggestive, nonimitative place that can only exist in performance time. It is a poem rather than an illustration. Rather than a set, it is what Strindberg described as a space "where anything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist." It creates its own logic and invites us to dream, to transcend our daily routines, especially at a time when our lives are so encumbered by an ailing economic system and a political cynicism that burdens us with deep mistrust.