Conversations

"The role of language in art remains ambiguous," the playwright Harold Pinter once said, "like a frozen pool, a quicksand, a trampoline…" This sentence, though beautiful, nevertheless appears to be inadequate. It seems that the description better fits a young woman, rather than art theory - a young woman, who appears to be standing, almost literally, on top of a quicksand, holding herself with grace and carelessness in equal measure. I am fascinated by that image of subtle balance with which the little movements of her life must be held, sometimes tightly, sometimes delicately. I am captivated by the slight variations around that fragile balance, and how sometimes it is lost, forever.

Conversations is a collection of stories of young women who are modern prototypes for reckless romanticism. Their conversations about love and death blur with uncertain clarity as they navigate through a world of decisions. And the ambiguity in their manners contrasts the conventional language, which is designed to be exactly what it is: a dull semantic presence, awkward and inadequate at best.