Another thing that kind of informed my idea and inspired me was Sophie Calle’s exhibition at the whitechapel gallery. I’d never really been that aware of her work before being taken there by my girlfriend this weekend but the exhibition was really amazing. It’s entitled talking to strangers and involves her taking an email her ex wrote her and getting lots of different professional women to interpret it in different ways. There’s a really wide range of people (and a parrot) who have given their interpretations. It made me think about how one thing or event can be interpreted so differently by different people and that is what I’m aiming to get across with my letters.
