First The Sun - Then The Moon

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“I always work to music. Right now I’m working on a portrait, one of my customary portraits that I have returned to again and again since the mid 1980s.
The room pounds to the beat of the Rolling Stones in the loudspeakers, and Keith Richards is singing, ‘First the sun – then the moon...’
I carve the text into my picture...”

Draft for catalogue text to “Fire!” (Det Brinner!), 2000.

Image: lino print, 1998 ca

Relief in three versions...