For art's sake

Norwegian artist Erik Steffen Alvaer tells Mike Peters how he found a new way of life in China.

What to do? What to see? What to buy? Which TV shows or movies to watch? What's the next big thing?

For Erik Steffen Alvaer, the cacophony of life-defining choices in the West have become more than distracting. The intensity of which is overwhelming but ultimately dissatisfying to him.