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The Last Kiss is a wall-based montage of collected 'last kisses' reporoduced using darkroom techniques.  The piece is intended to convey the emotions and timescale involved from the decision to leave an abusive relationship to the eventual emergence from it.

 

"The morning I decided to leave, I put my make up on as usual, blotted my lips, looked at the inprint on the tissue and thought to myself, 'this is the last kiss'.  I put the blotted tissue in an envelope as a reminder to myself that by the end of the day I would no longer be there.  By the time the relationship ended, approximately three years later, I had collected around four hundred 'last kisses' in a box".

 

Rediscovered during the summer of 2004 I started to experiment with the 'kisses', at first using them to make photograms then negative printing the photograms to achieve a positive print of the blotted tissues.  The prints were then individually coloured to make them more like the original blotted tissues.

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