Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990s
Accompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984

My very first ink drawing (August 1982). It is not only in this work that the likeness of David Bowie can be found as a representative of a person depicted. Needless to say, I am a fan of this artist’s music and androgynous charisma.

Ever since I first read George Orwell’s “1984” when I was at school, the subject of the surveillance state and thought police has haunted my mind.

“The 2nd Me” depicts Orwell’s protagonist Winston Smith in his fully surveilled apartment along with the ‘second me’ he hides in his diary.