(2002) installation & object & print, 420 x 183 x 183 cm, newspapers, cardboard, wire, packing tape & aged news-print
Isn’t it a lovely day (2002), installation detail view for Degree Show at Camberwell College of Arts, London
This title seems to represent the most Englishness I ever made.
Our relationship between me and Ali, is still hard to describe. She was my landlady, but also I was sort of a watcher for her at the time.
She always wanted to go home, and I missed my own home badly. Whoever, whenever she met, she said this phrase, and had a cuppa tea with them.
One time when I came back in the evening after shaving my head in a performance, she immediately called me a gentleman.
This is my degree show.
For a while I called it: ‘isn’t it a lovry day’. The second ‘l’ in ‘lovely’ changed into ‘r’ because I couldn’t pronounce it like native speakers. But then, did Ali pronounce it correctly?
We are all drifters who wish the day is lovely.