PIXIES DOOLITTLE
“It’s the same photograph as the single (Monkey Gone To Heaven), but reduced to one colour and with bronze on there to give it an earthy feel. The grid came from a conversation with Charles, where he was explaining that successful music was a mathematical equation – which kind of broke my heart, because I’d had this very romantic notion about it. I thought, ‘okay, you’re talking about formulas, but we use formulas in painting, like the Golden Section’, so the grid was my response.”