Writing in light
In my neon prints (and to a lesser extent, the photos they are based on), the neons become the message themselves. They cannot be attached to a specific place- indeed in a lot of cases the shop where I took the photo may no longer exist; So the print works as a metaphor
Exhibition review- Andy Warhol
I wanted to see more about the Factory and the Superstars. There was a room lined with aluminium, and this was one of my favourite rooms in the exhibition: it felt a bit like stepping into the best days of the Factory.
Punctum
There is something that connects me and draws me back to look at it over and over again and to want to share it with others. It is the “punctum” that Roland Barthes talked about in Camera Lucida (“La chambre claire”), the something that resonates, the detail that attracts or wounds, as he said.
How screenprinting took over my life
I had abandoned what had been so essential to me in my early twenties- an output for my experiences and feelings, a way of bearing witness to my life and that of those around me, a way to comment on the world and my inner thoughts, a place to develop imaginary worlds and languages.