Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.