The private view, 18 August.
(Picture: Toby York)
I draw people where they work, and I draw what is around them – a favourite mug, the photographs on a wall, a pile of books, a dog bed, the light through a door. We talk while I work, so most of these things turn out to have a story attached.
We were looking here at the picture of Patrick. The office in it no longer exists – he moved on, and the firm moved away. The drawing is what remains.
Not a likeness so much as a store of memory.
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