AC: Did either of you get any particular source of inspirationfor the visual styles of the series you work in—for instance, theiconographic portraits ‘extracts’; the male gaze; references tovisual culture; the tangibility of memories, etc.—or did theyarrive in relation to the nature of the materials you have used, andlocations (either physical, psychological or situational) you werepositioned in?AK: Yes—just as my influences draw from various media, thesource images I work with come from similarly different places.The iconographic portraits you mentioned stem from film journalslike Cahiers du Cinéma, for example, the style of yellow press orphotonovels. The typewriter works from the 1970s are, amongother things, book pages that I have painted and written over.In these series, I have used my own writing, alongside literarysources—such as fragments from Zettels Traum (which translatesto Bottom’s Dream) published by [German Author] Arno Schmidt, forexample.