know what’s going to happen, then I just find it boring and I don’t see any reason in going on. That kind of transitioned with the last series. I started using magazines. I would glue them onto canvas and then just use water, and like Stephen says excavate it all off. I really hadn’t used this technique before. I started doing that last year when I was showing in the Hamptons. Stephen : Well there is a context there with my New York photos as well because Susan’s current paintings The Subway Sonnets… Susan : It’s all about 80s New York! I grew up in the projects in New York. None of that gorgeous stuff is there anymore. But that’s what I grew up around, going to the village and Saint Mark’s Place. I started working on a piece for a collector. She was getting married and she wanted to gift her husband a painting of mine for their wedding day. She wanted it on love, and it was really before I started putting any narrative into these works. But I was kind of heading toward this 80’s grunge vibe. So I met with her, and then I started just getting this narrative together of their life. I put it in and I kind of liked that back and forth, telling a story like someone would post a sticker ‘call this number for a fun time’ and then something stuck over it or scrawled on top. I enjoyed that back and forth. I’ve been doing sonnets on love, on wealth, on health, and it’s just been really interesting because it’s been resonating, especially now. My lyrics, whatever I’m listening to, it’s written into the painting. So I mean, if you look back at the Thread series and Deconstructed, you can definitely see how it’s travelled and where it’s come from. That’s what I’m exploring. I just took all the best bits out of all those pieces and I really enjoy where I am now. My biggest selling work by far has been this new Subway Sonnet Series. I am having the best year ever this year.
Arrow #1 by Stephen
with the French dress patterns I sent you from the flea market in Paris. Susan : That was a really popular series, but… Daks : You do something, you get the end of it and then you want to move on? That was what I was interested in. How you went through that process of development because you have got four quite unique styles. They all link and there is an obvious progression. Susan : Yeah! It seems that every year or so another one comes out. I think the thing is that I feel I explore it to a certain point. I take whatever it’s given me and take out the good things in it and move it on. If it becomes too easy or I could manage the events and
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