The figures are both particular and universal. They are portraits not as representations but as a remembering of a feeling or encounter. That is, I think, why they never really occupy a distinct place, since they are about the sensations and emotions of many moments drawn together. There are recurrent themes, where the same figures or the format repeats. The single blue figures are on-going, each made at a different time and the closest to self-portraiture. The Heads similarly are a constantly revisited form. They were originally made from the left over pieces of Looking Forwards to the Past. Stitching the fragments together was a way to reconstruct myself as a new being. Alice Kettle