Mona Hatoum - Corps Étranger

"It is a complex work. It is both fascinating to follow the journey of the camera and quite disturbing. On one hand you have the body of a woman projected onto the floor. You can walk all over it. It’s debased, deconstructed, objectified. On the other hand it’s the fearsome body of the woman as constructed by society.

You enter a cylinder and you stand on the perimeter of the circular video image projected onto the floor. You feel like you are at the edge of an abyss that threatens to engulf you. It activates all sorts of fears and insecurities about the devouring womb, the vagina dentata, the castration complex."

More Jenny Saville

"It's because the nervousness of revealing is inherent that I'm interested in it - not in showing the world my genitalia. It is about being brave enough with myself to offer up that anxiety. I like my neuroses - they are my living sketchbook. I don't want to work them out."

The Joy of Representational Painting

Draft 1

Jenny Saville

"(Flesh) is all things. Ugly, beautiful, repulsive, compelling, anxious, neurotic, dead, alive."

Wikipedia - Oil Paint

"Oil paints have a surface translucency similar to human skin, making it an ideal medium for portraits."

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

"There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice--patched, retreaded and approved for the road."