Bubble & Squeak
2009
“My scripts are all neo-Romantic. My teacher says I’m cynical, I say she’s a Lesbian.”
(Text from The artist book by Liat Elbling)
This project, called Bubble & Squeak, is presented as an artist book and containing 30 images of myself with different men in various situations, as well as different landscapes and texts. The men in the photographs are all strangers, whom I’ve invited to be photographed with me on the street. I later used a computer to place them against backgrounds, most of which I took myself before or during the work on the piece. Some of the landscapes were constructed from various fragments on the computer.
In these photographs, me and a man, meant to signify a father figure, stand embracing against backgrounds of changing landscapes. We are happy...
